{"publishers": ["New Directions Pub."], "identifiers": {"librarything": ["58112"], "goodreads": ["69517"]}, "subject_place": ["London (England)", "England"], "covers": [598262], "key": "/books/OL686477M", "authors": [{"key": "/authors/OL26160A"}], "publish_places": ["New York"], "pagination": "141 p. ;", "source_records": ["marc:marc_records_scriblio_net/part26.dat:139906378:745", "bwb:9780811213790", "marc:marc_loc_2016/BooksAll.2016.part26.utf8:62611056:745", "ia:girlsofslenderme0000spar_a2z4", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2022-09-02", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2022-03-17", "ia:girlsofslenderme0000spar_w7a0", "idb:9780811213790", "marc:marc_columbia/Columbia-extract-20221130-005.mrc:195525067:1683", "marc:harvard_bibliographic_metadata/ab.bib.13.20150123.full.mrc:715123393:909"], "title": "The girls of slender means", "number_of_pages": 141, "languages": [{"key": "/languages/eng"}], "subjects": ["World War, 1939-1945 -- England -- Fiction", "Young women -- Fiction", "London (England) -- Fiction"], "publish_date": "1998", "publish_country": "nyu", "series": ["New Directions classics"], "by_statement": "Muriel Spark.", "works": [{"key": "/works/OL26435W"}], "type": {"key": "/type/edition"}, "local_id": ["urn:bwbsku:O8-DGU-218", "urn:bwbsku:W7-BUQ-083"], "ocaid": "girlsofslenderme0000spar_a2z4", "isbn_10": ["081121379X"], "lccn": ["97033399"], "classifications": {}, "dewey_decimal_class": ["823/.914"], "lc_classifications": ["PR6037.P29 G5 1998", "PR6037.P29G5 1998"], "oclc_numbers": ["37426364"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "The Girls of Slender Means is Dame Muriel Spark's tragic portrait of a London ladies' hostel just emerging from the shadow of World War II. 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.\n\nThe novel's ending reveals that the girls' giddy literary and amorous peregrinations are hiding some tragically painful war wounds."}, "latest_revision": 16, "revision": 16, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-09-11T02:13:58.397307"}}