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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Sign InFictionYoung womenWorld War, 1939-1945World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924England, fictionLondon (england), fictionBritish and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)World war, 1939-1945, fictionFiction, historicalLarge type booksWorld literatureFiction subjects
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First Published
1963
Pages
144 pages
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Perigee Trade
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GER, ENG
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