A Girl in Winter
by:
Philip Larkin (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780571106929 (0571106927)
Publish date: March 3rd 1975
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Pages no: 248
Edition language: English
On a wintery Saturday in wartime Britain, Katherine Lind remembers a summer holiday she spent with an English boy and his family. Today, she might hear from him again.Do those who cultivate a social detatchment live life to the full? Low 3, something of a nothing.Background music? all over Ella Fitz...
Philip Larkin in Oxford, 1943Philip Larkin opens A Girl in Winter with a chapter, three paragraphs long, in which he describes England during World War II, suffering through a stormy winter, its people trying to carry on daily life through numbness and deprivation:[The snow] lay in ditches and in ho...