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The Girls of Slender Means is a novella written in 1963 by British author Muriel Spark. It was included in Anthony Burgess's 1984 book Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939 — A Personal Choice.
- Muriel Spark
- 1963
A novel by Muriel Spark about a group of young women in post-war London, who face a tragic fire and a spiritual crisis. The title refers to their superficiality, their physical appearance, and their spiritual poverty.
The Girls of Slender Means, novel by Muriel Spark, published in a shortened version in 1963 in The Saturday Evening Post and published in book form later that year. The novel, set primarily in London during World War II, focuses on the inhabitants of a residential club for unmarried women and on.
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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...
Apr 17, 1998 · 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." Read more.
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- Muriel Spark
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- New Directions Publishing Corporation
Summary. 'It never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.'. The May of Teck Club 'exists for the Pecuniary Convenience and Social Protection of Ladies of Slender Means below the age of Thirty Years'.
Apr 17, 1998 · "Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions," begins The Girls of Slender Means, Dame Muriel Spark's tragic and rapier-witted portrait of...
