Borrowed Finery: A Memoir
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, whe…
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- ISBN: 978-0-312-42519-7
- EAN: 9780312425197
- Produktnummer: 19441476
- Verlag: St Martins Pr 3Pl
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 216 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.3 cm 308 g
- Gewicht: 308
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