{"product_id":"the-girls-of-slender-means-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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpark, Muriel:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eMuriel Spark\u003c\/strong\u003e (1918-2006) was the author of dozens of novels, including \u003cem\u003eThe Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Memento Mori, A Far Cry from Kensington, The Girls of Slender Means, The Ballad of Peckham Rye, The Driver's Seat\u003c\/em\u003e, and many more. She became Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1993.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50725345001746,"sku":"9780811213790","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d000db99-2bdc-4801-a0ca-cb3b5a5c6caf.jpg?v=1734826640","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-girls-of-slender-means-9780811213790","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}