Uma rapariga no Inverno
ISBN:
9789722008389 (9722008382)
Publish date: December 1990
Publisher: Publicações Dom Quixote
Edition language: Portuguese
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...