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Borrowed Finery

By Paula Fox

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Borrowed Finery

By Paula Fox

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
226
Release Date:
2005-11-12
Publication Date:
2000-09-05
Publisher:
St. Martins Press-3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0312425198
ISBN13:
9780312425197
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
325 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
14 cm

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