An edition of The girls of slender means (1963)

The girls of slender means

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The girls of slender means
Muriel Spark, Muriel Spark
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An edition of The girls of slender means (1963)

The girls of slender means

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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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Macmillan
Language
English

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Subjects

Fiction, Young women, World War, 1939-1945, World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924, England, fiction, London (england), fiction, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), World war, 1939-1945, fiction, Fiction, historical, Large type books, World literature, Fiction subjects, Fiction, general, English literature, Social conditions

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England, London (England), London

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Cover of: Girls of Slender Means
Girls of Slender Means
2013, Penguin Books, Limited
in English
Cover of: The girls of slender means
The girls of slender means
1998, New Directions Pub.
in English
Cover of: The Girls of Slender Means
The Girls of Slender Means
March 1990, Avon Books (P)
in English
Cover of: The girls of slender means
The girls of slender means
1986, ISIS Large Print
in English - [Large print ed.]
Cover of: Mädchen mit begrenzten Möglichkeiten
Mädchen mit begrenzten Möglichkeiten
1986, Diogenes
in German
Cover of: The Girls of Slender Means
The Girls of Slender Means
May 29, 1975, Penguin Books Ltd
Cover of: The girls of slender means.
The girls of slender means.
1963, Knopf
in English - [1st ed.]
Cover of: The girls of slender means
The girls of slender means
1963, Macmillan
in English

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London

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Open Library
OL19392669M
ISBN 10
0333535936
OCLC/WorldCat
410593040
Library Thing
58112
Goodreads
991348

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Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions.
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