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The Girls Of Slender Means

The Girls Of Slender Means

by Muriel Spark (Author)

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    Paperback 1975

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Synopsis

This is London 1945, when all nice people are poor. Muriel Spark sets us down among the girls of good family but slender means as they fight it out, from their Kensington hostel to the last clothing coupon until this charmingly light-hearted period in their lives descends into horror and tragedy.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 144
 Edition: New impression
 Publisher: Penguin
Published: 29 May 1975
ISBN 10: 0140024263
ISBN 13: 9780140024265

Media Reviews
Spark writes with a light comic touch, but there's an undertone of a kind of existential desperation.--Patrick T. Reardon
Author Bio
Muriel Spark's many novels include Memento Mori, The Girls of Slender Means, A Far Cry From Kensington, The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie (adapted for film and theatre), Aiding And Abetting and her final novel, The Finishing School. She was elected C. Litt in 1992 and awarded the DBE in 1993. Dame Muriel received many awards, including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the FNAC Prix Etranger, the Saltire Prize, the Ingersoll T. S. Eliot Award and the David Cohen British Literature Prize in recognition of a lifetime's literary achievement. Dame Muriel died in 2006.