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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... stood in front of this , where a disintegrating cigarette - end floated . Everything was very untidy : around the walls between bookcases and filing cabinets were stacked books and box - files that had not been referred to for months ...
... stood in front of this , where a disintegrating cigarette - end floated . Everything was very untidy : around the walls between bookcases and filing cabinets were stacked books and box - files that had not been referred to for months ...
Page 120
... stood , and once they passed a row of riverside cot- tages , and a bare - armed woman came out with a pail . She set it down with a clang and stared at them . Robin addressed his remarks to Katherine , who sat with her back to him . " I ...
... stood , and once they passed a row of riverside cot- tages , and a bare - armed woman came out with a pail . She set it down with a clang and stared at them . Robin addressed his remarks to Katherine , who sat with her back to him . " I ...
Page 123
... stood up uncertainly . " The point is , you might fall in . ” of " Oh , but I can swim . " " Yes , but we should get into a row for not taking care you . It's tricky till you get your balance . " He brought up the pole again . " Stand ...
... stood up uncertainly . " The point is , you might fall in . ” of " Oh , but I can swim . " " Yes , but we should get into a row for not taking care you . It's tricky till you get your balance . " He brought up the pole again . " Stand ...
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