The clothes on their backs
a novel
1st Scribner ed.
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Word Count
73,250 words, Guess
Page Count
293 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveclothesontheirba00gran
- Internet Archiveclothesontheirba0000gran_n1m6
- Internet Archiveclothesontheirba0000gran_w8p3
- ISBN-101439143196
- ISBN-139781439143193
and 11 more
- ISBN-139781439142363
- ISBN-10143914236X
- LibraryThing6196485
- Goodreads6049174', '6054353
- Library of Congress Control Number2009277718
- ISBN-10143914236
- ISBN-13143914236
- OCLC Control Number275358930
- Better World Books9781439142363
- Better World Books9781439143193
- Open LibraryOL23106632M
Classifications
- DDC823/.914
- LCCPR6057.R316 C56 2008b
- LCCPR6057.R316
and 3 more
- LCCPR6057.R316C56 2008b
- LCCPR6057.R316 C66 2008
- LCCPR6057.R316 C56 2008
Description
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.
Description
A powerful story of family, love, and the hold the past has on the present. A woman, having endured unbearable loss, finds solace in the family secrets her estranged uncle reveals.
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