A Girl in Winter
by:
Philip Larkin (author)
This story of Katherine Lind and Robin Fennel, of winter and summer, of war and peace, of exile and holidays.
This story of Katherine Lind and Robin Fennel, of winter and summer, of war and peace, of exile and holidays.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780571225811 (0571225810)
Publish date: March 3rd 2005
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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...
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