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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... sides of which were taken up by the Town Hall and Municipal Departments , under which the bus had dropped them . In the ... side were low reticent shop windows , tailors and jewellers . The green was covered with snow . Katherine was ...
... sides of which were taken up by the Town Hall and Municipal Departments , under which the bus had dropped them . In the ... side were low reticent shop windows , tailors and jewellers . The green was covered with snow . Katherine was ...
Page 51
... side of the room opposite the door was a step up to a little curtained alcove - a doorway with no door - where there was a bed . Here she kept her clothes . In the main room were two tables - a square kitchen table , with the remains of ...
... side of the room opposite the door was a step up to a little curtained alcove - a doorway with no door - where there was a bed . Here she kept her clothes . In the main room were two tables - a square kitchen table , with the remains of ...
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... side and these fruit trees on the other . And then you see it slopes pretty well due south down to the river , and catches all the sun . " He pulled down a branch and fingered one or two plums ; when he found one that rolled off into ...
... side and these fruit trees on the other . And then you see it slopes pretty well due south down to the river , and catches all the sun . " He pulled down a branch and fingered one or two plums ; when he found one that rolled off into ...
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