The Girls of Slender Means

Name: The Girls of Slender Means
ISBN: 9780811213790

Muriel Spark

1963·176 pages

Historical Fiction

classics

“one of this century's finest creators of comic-metaphysical entertainment.”
— The New York Times

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.

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