About this book
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.
Details
- First published
- 1963
- ISBN-13
- 9780811213790
- OL Work ID
- OL26435W
Subjects
FictionYoung 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 subjectsFiction, generalEnglish literatureSocial conditions