The Clothes On Their Backs (Paperback, Digital original)

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 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.

General

Imprint:	Virago Press Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 2009
Authors:	Linda Grant
Dimensions:	198 x 126 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	293
Edition:	Digital original
ISBN-13:	978-1-84408-542-2
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	1-84408-542-2
Barcode:	9781844085422

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