A Girl in WinterA Girl in Winter is the moving and enigmatic story of Katherine Lind, a European woman in wartime England. The vicious winter weather has paralyzed the countryside; the emotions of Katherine are frozen as well, as fear and loneliness increase her sense of isolation. By splicing the story of Katherine's sunlit 16th summer in between the halves of a single winter day on which the suitor of her youth returns to her present life, Larkin illuminates the process by which we learn to decipher and accommodate the longings of the heart. |
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Page 171
... mind ? Surely not , on her last evening ; and even if they did , there would be little enough time left for them to mind in . She picked up the paddle and dipped it in the water . " Are you stealing our boat ? " said Robin . He was ...
... mind ? Surely not , on her last evening ; and even if they did , there would be little enough time left for them to mind in . She picked up the paddle and dipped it in the water . " Are you stealing our boat ? " said Robin . He was ...
Page 185
... mind produced by living alone , living in England , and all the rest of it . She deeply hoped it was . There were times when it seemed a trivial and shallow depression . And there were times when the fear of it touched her as cold as ...
... mind produced by living alone , living in England , and all the rest of it . She deeply hoped it was . There were times when it seemed a trivial and shallow depression . And there were times when the fear of it touched her as cold as ...
Page 212
... mind , and the thought that Robin was not coming met her , her grief would break in a little shivering wave , and then reform . She need not have worried and rc- proached herself ; he had not even started . How silly she had been ...
... mind , and the thought that Robin was not coming met her , her grief would break in a little shivering wave , and then reform . She need not have worried and rc- proached herself ; he had not even started . How silly she had been ...
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