The Girls of Slender Means

The Girls of Slender Means - New Directions Classics

Paperback (17 Mar 1998)

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Publisher's Synopsis

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."

Book information

ISBN: 9780811213790
Publisher: New Directions
Imprint: New Directions Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: 823.914
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 141
Weight: 160g
Height: 203mm
Width: 134mm
Spine width: 12mm