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Linda Grant 39077 - The clothes on their backs

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Virago, 2009. Paperback. Pp: 304. 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 Sándor 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. ISBN: 9781844085422. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
EUR 7.50 [Appr.: US$ 8.12 | £UK 6.5 | JP¥ 1269] Book number 84559

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