The Girls of Slender MeansNew Directions Publishing, 1963 - 176 Seiten 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 harrowing ending reveals that the girls' giddy literary and amorous peregrinations are hiding some tragically painful war wounds. Chosen by Anthony Burgess as one of the Best Modern Novels in the Sunday Times of London, The Girls of Slender Means is a taut and eerily perfect novel by an author The New York Times has called "one of this century's finest creators of comic-metaphysical entertainment." |
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anarchist Anne Baberton bed-sitting room bedrooms bomb brain-wave brain-work Charles Morgan clothing coupons Collie Colonel crowd curate Deutschland dormitory girls Dorothy Markham drawing-room dress Dylan Thomas elocution eyes fact feeling Felix Dobell fire-escape firemen flat roof garden George girls of slender Greggie hair Haiti Jack Buchanan Jane Wright Jane's Jarvie Joanna Childe Joanna's voice knew ladder Lady Julia letter listen London looked margarine marvellous Boy Miss Muriel Spark Nancy Riddle never Nicholas Farringdon night Pauline Fox perfect balance poetry poets Poise is perfect recital recreation room rector Redwood round Rudi Bittesch Rudi paid Sabbath Notebooks Schiaparelli scream Selina shillings shouted skylight Slender Means slit window spinsters stood supper talk Teck Club telephone tell There's thing thought Tilly took top floor wash-room week wireless woman women world of books young