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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... seemed that they were right , for there was no sun , only one vast shell of cloud over the fields and woods . In contrast to the snow the sky looked brown . Indeed , without the snow the morning would have resembled a January nightfall ...
... seemed that they were right , for there was no sun , only one vast shell of cloud over the fields and woods . In contrast to the snow the sky looked brown . Indeed , without the snow the morning would have resembled a January nightfall ...
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... seemed to find him a standing joke - even to like him while agreeing he was quite impossible , as if cursing the weather . But she had disliked him on sight , and as she got to know him better her dislike increased . She could never ...
... seemed to find him a standing joke - even to like him while agreeing he was quite impossible , as if cursing the weather . But she had disliked him on sight , and as she got to know him better her dislike increased . She could never ...
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... seemed quite real . It was all a little insincere , like a school prizegiving . The parents , of course , might always behave like that . But Robin seemed to have taken his cue from them , so that she had now met all four of them , one ...
... seemed quite real . It was all a little insincere , like a school prizegiving . The parents , of course , might always behave like that . But Robin seemed to have taken his cue from them , so that she had now met all four of them , one ...
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