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 ha...

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1. Verfasser:	Grant, Linda 1951- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	London Virago 2008
Ausgabe:	Repr.
Schlagworte:	Hungarians > England > Fiction Jewish women > Fiction Nieces > Fiction Uncles > Fiction London (England) > Fiction
Zusammenfassung:	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.
Beschreibung:	293 S.
ISBN:	9781844085415