The Girls of Slender Means
by:
Muriel Spark (author)
Like the May of Teck Club itself, "three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit," the young women of London after WWII do their best to act as if the world were back to normal: practicing elocution, jostling over suitors and a single Schiaparelli gown. Chosen by Anthony Burgess...
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Like the May of Teck Club itself, "three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit," the young women of London after WWII do their best to act as if the world were back to normal: practicing elocution, jostling over suitors and a single Schiaparelli gown. Chosen by Anthony Burgess as one of the Best Modern Novels in the Sunday Times of London, The Girls of S
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Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Pages no: 176
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Female Authors,
Scotland
What an odd story. What an odd composition. Told mostly in flashbacks, The Girls of Slender Means tells of a group of girls who share lodgings at a home for women under 30 who have limited means of income. The story is mostly set during the summer of 1945 - between the end of the war in Europe and...
bookshelves: winter-20142015, published-1963, london, britain-england, lit-richer, filthy-lucre, classic, books-about-books-and-book-shops, anarchy Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from December 15, 2014 to January 02, 2015 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04vk9zsDescription: Long ago ...
This is the only novel of hers I've read, but Spark has a lot in common with Shirley Jackson: a keen ear for dialogue that on the surface says little, but reads volumes, a building aura of foreboding, and a sympathy for the outsider that doesn't exclude them from scrutiny.'The Girls of Slender Means...
As this was written 20 some years after the time period in which it takes place, I'm going to call this historical. It's like a character study of that time and the culture of wartime Britain, focused through the girls living at the May of Teck.I picked a used copy up at a neighborhood flower festiv...
I thought 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie' would be difficult to match, but I was wrong. This books had the same trademark elements as 'The Prime ...' but, in addition, is shows humour and tragedy from the very first page.
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