The Girls of Slender Means Paperback - 1998
by Muriel Spark
From the renowned author of THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE comes a tragic and rapier-witted portrait of a London ladies' hostel just emerging from the shadow of World War II. In 1945 the lady inhabitants do their best to act as if the world were back to normal, but the novel's harrowing ending reveals that the women's giddy literary and amorous peregrinations are hiding some tragically painful war wounds.
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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.
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- Title The Girls of Slender Means
- Author Muriel Spark
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint Edition
- Pages 140
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher New Directions Publishing Corporation, New York, New York, U.S.A
- Date 1998-04-17
- ISBN 9780811213790 / 081121379X
- Weight 0.35 lbs (0.16 kg)
- Dimensions 7.99 x 5.25 x 0.44 in (20.29 x 13.34 x 1.12 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress subjects War stories, London (England) - Fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97033399
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Library Journal, 04/15/1998, Page 120
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