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The girls of slender means / Muriel Spark.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Snack Spark Girls
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spark, Muriel, author.
- Series:
- New Directions classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--England--Fiction.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- London (England)--Fiction.
- London (England).
- Young women--Fiction.
- Young women.
- Boardinghouses--England--London--Fiction.
- Boardinghouses.
- England.
- England--London.
- Genre:
- War stories.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 141 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Directions Pub., [1998]
- Summary:
- 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.
- The lady inhabitants of a London ladies' hostel emerging from the shadow of World War II, do their best to act as if the world were back to normal, all the while maintaining a front for some tragically painful war wounds.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Beardwood Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 081121379X
- 9780811213790
- OCLC:
- 37426364
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