The Clothes on their Backs
Editorial VIRAGO PRESS
Festland Spanien
- Verlag VIRAGO PRESS
- ISBN13 9781844085415
- ISBN10 1844085414
- Gegenstandsart Buch
- Buchseiten 293
- Jahr der Ausgabe 2008
- Sprache Englisch
- Bindung Gebunden
Abschnitte
English LiteraturThe Clothes on their Backs
Editorial VIRAGO PRESS
Festland Spanien
Buch Details
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 a