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 86
... trees spreading against a wall . " Last year we got fifteen pounds . " He opened a door and they passed into the kitchen garden , meeting a profusion of lettuces , peas , runner beans , cabbages and rows of feathery carrots . In the ...
... trees spreading against a wall . " Last year we got fifteen pounds . " He opened a door and they passed into the kitchen garden , meeting a profusion of lettuces , peas , runner beans , cabbages and rows of feathery carrots . In the ...
Page 108
... tree , is it ? " " Two trees , " Katherine said deprecatingly . " It is meant to be the tree of knowledge and the tree of life . And on the comb one finds the serpent . " " So it is . That's most original . " " My grandfather was a ...
... tree , is it ? " " Two trees , " Katherine said deprecatingly . " It is meant to be the tree of knowledge and the tree of life . And on the comb one finds the serpent . " " So it is . That's most original . " " My grandfather was a ...
Page 170
... trees hung motionless in a barely- visible mist ; down towards the west there ran a vast fan of tiny clouds , ribbed and golden . She walked slowly along the path by the tennis - court , looking at the broad bed of flowers . Many of ...
... trees hung motionless in a barely- visible mist ; down towards the west there ran a vast fan of tiny clouds , ribbed and golden . She walked slowly along the path by the tennis - court , looking at the broad bed of flowers . Many of ...
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