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Borrowed Finery: A Memoir

Borrowed Finery: A Memoir

Fox, Paula

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Publisher Price: $20.00

ISBN10: 0312425198
ISBN13: 9780312425197
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: Nov 12 2005
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

Pointillist in detail, lapidary in method and brutal in effect...an eloquent, disturbing memoir. --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

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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