The girls of slender means

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.

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

שנה

1963

שפה

English

הוצאה

Penguin Books, Limited

מהדורות

19

עמודים

144

ISBN

9780241963999

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