The Girls of Slender Means (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780811213790)

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.

Chosen by Anthony Burgess as one of the Best Modern Novels in the Sunday Times of London, The Girls of Slender Means is a taut and eerily perfect novel by an author The New York Times has called "one of this century's finest creators of comic-metaphysical entertainment."

Author: Muriel Spark
ISBN-10: 081121379X
ISBN-13: 9780811213790
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 04/17/1998
Pages: 140
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.25w x 0.44d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 04/15/1998 pg. 120