The Clothes on Their Backs
by Linda Grant | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: Global Overview for this book
ISBN: Global Overview for this book
Registered by Cassiopaeia of Cardiff, Wales United Kingdom on 9/22/2020
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In a red brick mansion block off the Marylebone Road, Vivien, a sensitive, bookish girl grows up sealed off from both past and present by her timid refugee parents. Then one morning a glamorous uncle appears, dressed in a mohair suit, with a diamond watch on his wrist and a girl in a leopard-skin hat on his arm. Why is Uncle Sándor so violently unwelcome in her parents' home?
This is a novel about survival - both banal and heroic - and a young woman who discovers the complications, even betrayals, that inevitably accompany the fierce desire to live.
Set against the backdrop of a London from the 1950s to the present day, The Clothes on Their Backs is a wise and tender novel about the clothes we choose to wear, the personalities we dress ourselves in, and about how they define us all.
In a red brick mansion block off the Marylebone Road, Vivien, a sensitive, bookish girl grows up sealed off from both past and present by her timid refugee parents. Then one morning a glamorous uncle appears, dressed in a mohair suit, with a diamond watch on his wrist and a girl in a leopard-skin hat on his arm. Why is Uncle Sándor so violently unwelcome in her parents' home?
This is a novel about survival - both banal and heroic - and a young woman who discovers the complications, even betrayals, that inevitably accompany the fierce desire to live.
Set against the backdrop of a London from the 1950s to the present day, The Clothes on Their Backs is a wise and tender novel about the clothes we choose to wear, the personalities we dress ourselves in, and about how they define us all.
Certainly not the read I was expecting considering it was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. The characters weren't well developed to my mind and the story was a bit hit and miss. I could have left it unfinished but hadn't decided on my next read! Others have enjoyed it, just not for me.
Journal Entry 3 by Cassiopaeia at Somewhere in the town in Budleigh Salterton, Devon United Kingdom on Tuesday, September 13, 2022
Released 1 yr ago (9/16/2022 UTC) at Somewhere in the town in Budleigh Salterton, Devon United Kingdom
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