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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Philip Larkin. " Perhaps you should have stayed in bed this morning . " Miss Green replaced her gloves with a genteel gesture . " Mother did suggest it . But it wasn't hurting so much when I got up , and it doesn't do to stay at home too ...
Philip Larkin. " Perhaps you should have stayed in bed this morning . " Miss Green replaced her gloves with a genteel gesture . " Mother did suggest it . But it wasn't hurting so much when I got up , and it doesn't do to stay at home too ...
Page 166
... stay , spinning them into a web of reminiscence that took only the pleasant colours for material . Both Robin and Jane contributed , treating her as if she were quite a different person , and her visit as if it had been one of the many ...
... stay , spinning them into a web of reminiscence that took only the pleasant colours for material . Both Robin and Jane contributed , treating her as if she were quite a different person , and her visit as if it had been one of the many ...
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... stay much longer . " It struck her that he did not really mean to go , that he had only suggested going to test her reactions again ; she saw it with a clairvoyance that had somehow broken from personal interest . It was unlike anything ...
... stay much longer . " It struck her that he did not really mean to go , that he had only suggested going to test her reactions again ; she saw it with a clairvoyance that had somehow broken from personal interest . It was unlike anything ...
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