The Clothes on Their Backs
by Linda Grant | Women's Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 1844085422 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 1844085422 Global Overview for this book
Registered by YorkCollegeLC of York, North Yorkshire United Kingdom on 9/22/2009
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Journal Entry 1 by YorkCollegeLC from York, North Yorkshire United Kingdom on Tuesday, September 22, 2009
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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 Sandor 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 Sandor 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.
Journal Entry 2 by YorkCollegeLC at York College in York, North Yorkshire United Kingdom on Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Released 14 yrs ago (9/22/2009 UTC) at York College in York, North Yorkshire United Kingdom
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