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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... she had heard . But after a minute she looked up . " Where ? " " Over there . Do you think you could walk it ? ” " I can try . " Katherine stooped and took her thin arm . Together they crossed to the green and went up the path to the ...
... she had heard . But after a minute she looked up . " Where ? " " Over there . Do you think you could walk it ? ” " I can try . " Katherine stooped and took her thin arm . Together they crossed to the green and went up the path to the ...
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... she did not look as if she had ever been pretty , she still kept a gaucheness of manner that would have been suitable only in a very young girl . It made her laughable . Left alone , Katherine looked round . Sometimes , when her own ...
... she did not look as if she had ever been pretty , she still kept a gaucheness of manner that would have been suitable only in a very young girl . It made her laughable . Left alone , Katherine looked round . Sometimes , when her own ...
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... Katherine felt as if she had suffered a slug to crawl across her . And beyond that , weariness , oceans- long ... looked , thin and cross . And the room was poky ; it had been a storeroom till it had been converted , and it smelt inimitably ...
... Katherine felt as if she had suffered a slug to crawl across her . And beyond that , weariness , oceans- long ... looked , thin and cross . And the room was poky ; it had been a storeroom till it had been converted , and it smelt inimitably ...
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