The Girls of Slender Means (MP3 CD) (ISBN-13: 9781433220173)

"Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions..." Thus begins Muriel Spark's tragic and rapier-witted portrait of a London ladies' hostel just emerging from the shadow of World War II. Like the May of Teck Club building 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. But the novel's harrowing ending reveals that the girls' giddy literary and amorous peregrinations are hiding some tragically painful war wounds.

Author: Muriel Spark
ISBN-10: 1433220172
ISBN-13: 9781433220173
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2008
Format: MP3 CD
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 7.40h x 5.30w x 0.60d