The Girls of Slender Means

The Girls of Slender Means

Pages

144

Rating

3.65

Year

1963

Description

Like the May of Teck Club itself, "three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit," the young women of London after WWII do their best to act as if the world were back to normal: practicing elocution, jostling over suitors and a single Schiaparelli gown.

Endorsements

Chosen as one of the Best Modern Novels in the Sunday Times of London — Anthony Burgess

"One of this century's finest creators of comic-metaphysical entertainment." — The New York Times