The Girls of Slender Means, are a group of girls that live in post-war London in , and reside at the May of Teck Club, which is a hostel or group home. In the present, one of the characters, Jane Wright, who does "brain work" in the "world of books", is trying to contact all of the other girls who were in the May of Teck Club with her, to inform them of an event that takes www.doorway.ru by: · But Muriel Spark's The Girls of Slender Means was winking at me from a bookstore display in a witty new cover and a beguiling small format; this was a book I Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins. It will come as no surprise to regular Spark readers that farce turns into tragedy. The word Slender in the title has a double meaning. As well as meaning financially limited, it refers to the toilet window on one of the upper floors. The slimmer (slender) girls are able to get out of this window onto the roof/5(K).
ISBN: Number of pages: Weight: g. Dimensions: x x 8 mm. Beautifully packaged reissue of one of Muriel Spark's best loved novels, The Girls of Slender Means. 'Long ago in all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions'. Spark's most celebrated novel, THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE, tells the story of a charismatic schoolteacher's catastrophic effect on her pupils. THE GIRLS OF SLENDER MEANS" is a beautifully drawn portrait of young women living in a hostel in London in the giddy postwar days of This is an eccentric book. Much like, I'm guessing, most of Muriel Spark's books. I've only read three now, including The Girls of Slender Means. I had a difficult time initially, getting into to the novel. It starts out with a very broad narrative voice, and then moves through a series of scene fragments with many different characters.
A girl of slender means. In her mids Muriel Spark was in crisis. Martin Stannard, who has spent 15 years researching her authorised biography, documents the failing love affair, nervous. Spark's most celebrated novel, THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE, tells the story of a charismatic schoolteacher's catastrophic effect on her pupils. THE GIRLS OF SLENDER MEANS" is a beautifully drawn portrait of young women living in a hostel in London in the giddy postwar days of But Muriel Spark's The Girls of Slender Means was winking at me from a bookstore display in a witty new cover and a beguiling small format; this was a book I could read in one evening. But, of.
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