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Borrowed Finery
A Memoir
Taschenbuch von Paula Fox
Sprache: Englisch

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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.

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.

Über den Autor
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.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
Genre: Biographien
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780312425197
ISBN-10: 0312425198
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Fox, Paula
Hersteller: St. Martins Press-3PL
Maße: 216 x 140 x 14 mm
Von/Mit: Paula Fox
Erscheinungsdatum: 05.09.2000
Gewicht: 0,325 kg
Artikel-ID: 107908445
Über den Autor
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.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
Genre: Biographien
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780312425197
ISBN-10: 0312425198
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Fox, Paula
Hersteller: St. Martins Press-3PL
Maße: 216 x 140 x 14 mm
Von/Mit: Paula Fox
Erscheinungsdatum: 05.09.2000
Gewicht: 0,325 kg
Artikel-ID: 107908445
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