A Girl in Winter
by:
Philip Larkin (author)
Philip Larkin's second novel was first published in 1947. This story of Katherine Lind and Robin Fennel, of winter and summer, of war and peace, of exile and holidays, is memorable for its compassionate precision and for the uncommon and unmistakable distinction of its writing. 'A Girl in Winter...
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Philip Larkin's second novel was first published in 1947. This story of Katherine Lind and Robin Fennel, of winter and summer, of war and peace, of exile and holidays, is memorable for its compassionate precision and for the uncommon and unmistakable distinction of its writing. 'A Girl in Winter is a beautifully constructed, funny and profoundly sad book.' Andrew Motion 'One of the finest and most sustained prose poems in the language.' John Bayley
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780879512170 (0879512172)
Publish date: November 15th 1985
Publisher: Overlook TP
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...
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