Borrowed Finery

A Memoir

by Paula Fox

Newbery Award-winning writer Paula Fox recollects the tragedy of her upbringing in this woeful memoir. With an alcoholic father and a mother who aggressively rejected her, Fox was raised by a collection of diversely irresponsible parties whose eccentricities and cruelties she had to find ways to overcome.

Editions of Borrowed Finery

ISBN 9780805068153	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Henry Holt & Co	Date 2001	Price $1.00	Good
ISBN 9780805071849	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Henry Holt & Co	Date 2002	Price $1.00	Used, Very Good
ISBN 9780312425197	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Picador USA	Date 2005	Price $1.05	Very good condition.

Publisher Notes

Born to nomadic and bohemian parents who rarely had time for her, the author presents a portrait of her peripatetic childhood, detailing her many homes, from an orphanage in Manhattan to a sugar plantation in Cuba. Reprint.

Media Reviews

"Familiarity with the fiction makes for a certain detective pleasure in reading BORROWED FINERY, but sometimes the connections are so numerous as to distract one into a kind of pedantry. Those who have no prior acquaintance with Fox's writing may actually be in for a fresher, more powerful experience than those who do. Either way, the new book will very likely seem choppy and imagistic, Perhaps it couldn't be otherwise with a childhood this disjointed....But any irritation is made up for by Fox's intelligence and her exceptional eye."

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