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The Girls of Slender Means - Paperback

by Muriel Spark
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Availability:In StockContributor:Muriel SparkSeries:New Directions Classics #0Publish date:1998-04-17Pages:140
Language:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811213790ISBN-10:081121379XUPC:9780811213790Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Classics, HistoricalBook Topic:20th CenturySize:7.99 x 5.25 x 0.44 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SC7759JVKK
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."
Language:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811213790ISBN-10:081121379XUPC:9780811213790Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Classics, HistoricalBook Topic:20th CenturySize:7.99 x 5.25 x 0.44 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SC7759JVKK
Spark, Muriel: - Muriel Spark (1918-2006) was the author of dozens of novels, including The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Memento Mori, A Far Cry from Kensington, The Girls of Slender Means, The Ballad of Peckham Rye, The Driver's Seat, and many more. She became Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1993.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation

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