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008 970730s1998 nyu 000 1 eng
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050 00 $aPR6037.P29$bG5 1998
082 00 $a823/.914$221
100 1 $aSpark, Muriel.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80038438
245 14 $aThe girls of slender means /$cMuriel Spark.
260 $aNew York :$bNew Directions Pub.,$c1998.
300 $a141 pages ;$c21 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aNew Directions classics
520 $aThe 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.
520 8 $aThe novel's ending reveals that the girls' giddy literary and amorous peregrinations are hiding some tragically painful war wounds.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$zEngland$zLondon$vFiction.
650 0 $aYoung women$zEngland$zLondon$vFiction.
655 7 $aWar stories.$2gsafd
830 0 $aNew Directions classics.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95116794
852 00 $bglx$hPR6037.P29$iG5 1998