The Girls of Slender MeansThe Girls of Slender Means is Dame Muriel Spark's tragic portrait of a London ladies' hostel just emerging from the shadow of World War II. Like the May of Teck Club itself - "three times window-shattered since 1940 but never directly hit" - its lady inhabitants do their best to act as if the world were back to normal: practicing elocution, and jostling over suitors and a single Schiaparelli gown. The novel's ending reveals that the girls' giddy literary and amorous peregrinations are hiding some tragically painful war wounds. |
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The girls of slender means
Nutzerbericht - Not Available - Book Verdict"Spark, as usual, has perfectly plotted and peopled this giddy world of postwar delirium and girls' dormitory life," said LJ's reviewer of this satirical novel (LJ 10/1/63), which follows the low ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
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| Titel | The Girls of Slender Means Band 5 von Avon books Borzoi book New Directions classics Band 859 von New directions paperbook |
| Autor/in | Muriel Spark |
| Ausgabe | Neuauflage |
| Verlag | New Directions Publishing, 1963 |
| ISBN | 081121379X, 9780811213790 |
| Länge | 176 Seiten |
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