The Clothes On Their Backs
$31.31
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
31 May 2009
Summary
Unraveling Secrets: A Family’s Threads Through Time
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 an…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844085422 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1844085422 |
| Author: | Linda Grant |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 31 May 2009 |
| Weight: | 212g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 21mm |
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The Clothes on Their Backs reflects on the human capacity for survival and renewal, on intractable differences and the shocking ease with which some individuals resort to violence. - Adelaide Advertiser
Grant has written a compelling story, and she evokes the 1930s through to the 1970s extremely well, balancing an immediacy that is almost olfactory with a nostalgia that works like a faded Kodak print.’ - The Age She skilfully stitches together a story about morality, identity and belonging with a captivating plot. The clothes are splendid minor characters. - Hobart Mercury Graphically set in 1970s London, and immersed in the business of private history, this is a highly readable book Grant is a talented storyteller who has something serious to say - The Weekend Australian Spanning the 1950s to the present day, this is a chronicle not only of a family but also of London s social fabric, an expanding patchwork of displaced communities and racial, political and religious tensions. - Good Reading Grant s seamless style illustrates the complexities of identity and empowerment. - The Big Issue Grant writes of with an observant and sympathetic eye. - Sun-Herald characters, who are each so complex and beautifully vivid that they could command novels all of their own - Time Out SydneyAbout The Author
Linda Grant
Linda Grant is a novelist and journalist. She won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2000 and the Lettre Ulysses Prize for Literary Reportage in 2006. She writes for the Guardian, Telegraph and Vogue.
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