A stranger city
Grant, Linda, 1951-2019
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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 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 all.
Main title:
A stranger city / Linda Grant.
Author:
Grant, Linda, 1951-, author
Imprint:
London : Little Brown Book Group, 2019.©2019
Collation:
324 pages ; 22 cm.
Awards:
Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 2008, shortlist.
ISBN:
9780349010496 (paperback)
Dewey class:
813.6
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
353703
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Library | Adult Fiction - General | GRAN | Available |