DESCRIPTION : SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZEIn 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. PRODUCT DETAILS : ISBN : 9781844085422 BY (AUTHOR) Grant, Linda PUBLISHER : Little, Brown Book Group PUBLICATION DATE : April 02, 2009 COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : United Kingdom IMPRINT : Virago Press Ltd LANGUAGE : English AGE : General PRODUCT FORM : Paperback / softback DIMENSION : 196 mm x 128 mm WEIGHT : 212 g PRODUCT CATEGORY : Fiction & Related items
