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 73
... slowly towards the stone jetty , and their cries added to her mistrust . She did not want to land in this foreign country . Cables were thrown out and made fast : the boat shud- dered to a standstill . She looked over the rail at the ...
... slowly towards the stone jetty , and their cries added to her mistrust . She did not want to land in this foreign country . Cables were thrown out and made fast : the boat shud- dered to a standstill . She looked over the rail at the ...
Page 170
... slowly along the path by the tennis - court , looking at the broad bed of flowers . Many of them had softly closed . From here she passed through into the kitchen - garden , where the air was richer with a confused smell of vegetables ...
... slowly along the path by the tennis - court , looking at the broad bed of flowers . Many of them had softly closed . From here she passed through into the kitchen - garden , where the air was richer with a confused smell of vegetables ...
Page 172
... slowly mixing with the mist . In this way the edges of her emotions had blurred , and they now over- laid each other like twin planes of water running over wet sand , the last expenditure of succeeding waves . There was no longer any ...
... slowly mixing with the mist . In this way the edges of her emotions had blurred , and they now over- laid each other like twin planes of water running over wet sand , the last expenditure of succeeding waves . There was no longer any ...
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