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Borrowed Finery - by Paula Fox (Paperback)

Name: Borrowed Finery - by Paula Fox (Paperback)
Brand: Picador USA
SKU: 90813732
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Pointillist in detail, lapidary in method and brutal in effect...an eloquent, disturbing memoir.
About the Author: Paula Fox (1923-2017) is the author of the memoirs The Coldest Winter and Borrowed Finery, six novels, and a number of children's and young adult books, including the Newberry Award-winning children's book, The Slave Dancer.
224 Pages
Biography + Autobiography, Literary Figures

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About the Book

The writer Paula Fox examines her childhood and youth, during which time she was shuttled between different cities by her parents, a hard-drinking screenwriter dad and an icy-tempered, indifferent mother.

Book Synopsis

Pointillist in detail, lapidary in method and brutal in effect...an eloquent, disturbing memoir." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

Born in the 1920s to nomadic, bohemian parents, Paula Fox is left at birth in a Manhattan orphanage, then cared for by a poor yet cultivated minister in upstate New York. Her parents, however, soon resurface. Her handsome father is a hard-drinking screenwriter who is, for young Paula, "part ally, part betrayer." Her mother is given to icy bursts of temper that punctuate a deep indifference. Never sharing more than a few moments with his daughter, Fox's father allows her to be shuttled from New York City, where she lives with her passive Spanish grandmother, to Cuba, where she roams freely on a relative's sugarcane plantation, to California, where she finds herself cast upon Hollywood's seedy margins.

The thread binding these wanderings is the "borrowed finery" of the title of this astonishing memoir of one writer's unusual beginnings, which was instantly recognized as a modern classic.

Review Quotes

"Pointillist in detail, lapidary in method and brutal in effect...an eloquent, disturbing memoir." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

"Original and elegant...A celebration of resilience--both of character and of the memoir form." --Sandra Scofield, Chicago Tribune

"Restrained yet unsparing...Fox is an accomplished writer, with a gift for penetrating to the heart of complex feelings and complicated situations." --Merle Rubin, Los Angeles Times

About the Author

Paula Fox (1923-2017) is the author of the memoirs The Coldest Winter and Borrowed Finery, six novels, and a number of children's and young adult books, including the Newberry Award-winning children's book, The Slave Dancer. She lived in Brooklyn, New York.

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Dimensions (Overall): 8.4 Inches (H) x 5.5 Inches (W) x .6 Inches (D)

Weight: .65 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 224

Genre: Biography + Autobiography

Sub-Genre: Literary Figures

Publisher: Picador USA

Format: Paperback

Author: Paula Fox

Language: English

Street Date: November 12, 2005

TCIN: 90813732

UPC: 9780312425197

Item Number (DPCI): 247-46-2600

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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