The girls of slender means
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Author
Publication
1998 - New Directions Pub., New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
35,250 words, Guess
Page Count
141 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL686477M
- ISBN-10081121379X
- OCLC Control Number37426364
- OCLC Control Numbergirlsofslenderme0000spar_a2z4
- Library of Congress Control Number97033399
and 2 more
- LibraryThing58112
- Goodreads69517
Classifications
- DDC823/.914
- LCCPR6037.P29 G5 1998
Description
The 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.
First Sentence
Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions.
Excerpt
Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions.
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- New Directions classics
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