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New Directions Classics: The Girls of Slender Means

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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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New Directions Classics: The Girls of Slender Means, Muriel Spark

Lingua
Pubblicato
1998
Rilegatura
(In brossura),
Condizioni del libro
In buone condizioni
Prezzo
7,99 €

Metodi di pagamento

3,6
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Lingua
Inglese
Formato
In brossura
Pagine
140
ISBN10
081121379X
ISBN13
9780811213790
Serie
Prima pubblicazione
1963
Titolo originale
The Girls of Slender Means
Valutazione
3,6 su 5
Descrizione
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."