{"product_id":"the-girls-of-slender-means-muriel-spark-9780811213790","title":"The Girls of Slender Means","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chosen by Anthony Burgess as one of the Best Modern Novels in the \u003cem\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e of London, \u003cem\u003eThe Girls of Slender Means\u003c\/em\u003e is a taut and eerily perfect novel by an author \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e has called \"one of this century's finest creators of comic-metaphysical entertainment.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Muriel Spark\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 081121379X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811213790\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/17\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 140\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.99h x 5.25w x 0.44d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/15\/1998 pg. 120","brand":"Muriel Spark","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44044306383103,"sku":"9780811213790","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_48d1670b-db7e-4969-90f6-1504095c1f9b.jpg?v=1684972082","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-girls-of-slender-means-muriel-spark-9780811213790","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}