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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... window open for her . Beyond a rockery and some rose trees there was a tennis court , sunk below a gravel path that led to a door in a wall running across the bottom of the garden . " Do you play tennis ? " asked Robin . " We must have ...
... window open for her . Beyond a rockery and some rose trees there was a tennis court , sunk below a gravel path that led to a door in a wall running across the bottom of the garden . " Do you play tennis ? " asked Robin . " We must have ...
Page 190
... window she saw a man in shirt - sleeves drinking tea , and outside a second stood a bicycle with a ladder tied to it , and a small signboard advertising a painter and decorator . A third had a card in the window announcing a make of ...
... window she saw a man in shirt - sleeves drinking tea , and outside a second stood a bicycle with a ladder tied to it , and a small signboard advertising a painter and decorator . A third had a card in the window announcing a make of ...
Page 193
... window , and this was filled with dreary rubbish , such as a Holiday Haunts for 1928 . This gave the room a slack , soulless air . Through the window she could see a depressing yard , with a bucket standing in the snow , and a high wall ...
... window , and this was filled with dreary rubbish , such as a Holiday Haunts for 1928 . This gave the room a slack , soulless air . Through the window she could see a depressing yard , with a bucket standing in the snow , and a high wall ...
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