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Borrowed Finery - A Memoir (Paperback)
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Borrowed Finery - A Memoir (Paperback)
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List price R535
Loot Price R443
Discovery Miles 4 430
You Save R92 (17%)
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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.
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