The Clothes On Their Backs EPUB
by Linda Grant
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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 S ndor 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.
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- Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication Date:02/10/2008
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- ISBN:9780748110810
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:EPUB
- Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication Date:02/10/2008
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- ISBN:9780748110810