Paula Fox wurde in den 1920er Jahren für nomadische, böhmische Eltern geboren, ist bei Geburt in einem Manhattan Waisenhaus zurückgelassen und dann von einem armen und dennoch kultivierten Minister im gehobenen New York gepflegt. Ihre Eltern werden jedoch bald wieder aufwachen. Ihr hübscher Vater ist ein hart trinkender Drehbuchautor, der für junge Paula "teilweise verrat" ist. Ihre Mutter wird eisigen Temperturen gegeben, die eine tiefe Gleichgültigkeit unterstreichen. Wie Fuchs Wunder, ist diese Frau "genug von einem organischen Wesen, um mich in ihrem Bauch getragen zu haben"? Nie mehr als ein paar Momente mit seiner Tochter, Foxs Vater erlaubt ihr aus New York City versendet zu werden, wo sie mit ihrer passiven spanischen Großmutter nach Kuba lebt, wo sie frei auf der Zuckerrohrplantage eines Verwandten nach Kalifornien, wo sie sich auf Hollywood geworfen hat. Wood's Seedy Ränder Die Fadenbindung dieser Wanderings ist die "geliehene Feinheit" des Titel-ein paar Kleidungsstücke, fast immer von fremden verliehenen Fremden verliehen, die Fox einen seltenen Blick auf Dauerhaftigkeit bieten. Sofort von Rezensionen und Lesern als Klassiker umarmt, ist dieses erstaunliche Memoir an den sehr ungewöhnlichen Anfängen eines Schriftstellers unvergesslich.
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Hardback. Zustand: Fair. Born in the 1920s to nomadic, bohemian parents, Paula Fox is left at birth in a Manhattan orphanage, then cared for by a poor yet cultivated minister in upstate New York. Her parents, however, soon resurface. Her handsome father is a hard-drinking screenwriter who is, for young Paula, part ally, part betrayer. Her mother is given to icy bursts of temper that punctuate a deep indifference. Never sharing more than a few moments with his daughter, Fox's father allows her to be shuttled from New York City, where she lives with her passive Spanish grandmother, to Cuba, where she roams freely on a relative's sugarcane plantation, to California, where she finds herself cast upon Hollywood's seedy margins. The thread binding these wanderings is the borrowed finery of the title of this astonishing memoir of one writer's unusual beginnings, which was instantly recognized as a modern classic. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 00051017078
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Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Born in the 1920s to nomadic, bohemian parents, Paula Fox is left at birth in a Manhattan orphanage, then cared for by a poor yet cultivated minister in upstate New York. Her parents, however, soon resurface. Her handsome father is a hard-drinking screenwriter who is, for young Paula, part ally, part betrayer. Her mother is given to icy bursts of temper that punctuate a deep indifference. Never sharing more than a few moments with his daughter, Fox's father allows her to be shuttled from New York City, where she lives with her passive Spanish grandmother, to Cuba, where she roams freely on a relative's sugarcane plantation, to California, where she finds herself cast upon Hollywood's seedy margins. The thread binding these wanderings is the borrowed finery of the title of this astonishing memoir of one writer's unusual beginnings, which was instantly recognized as a modern classic. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 00101782591
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Hardback. Zustand: Good. Born in the 1920s to nomadic, bohemian parents, Paula Fox is left at birth in a Manhattan orphanage, then cared for by a poor yet cultivated minister in upstate New York. Her parents, however, soon resurface. Her handsome father is a hard-drinking screenwriter who is, for young Paula, part ally, part betrayer. Her mother is given to icy bursts of temper that punctuate a deep indifference. Never sharing more than a few moments with his daughter, Fox's father allows her to be shuttled from New York City, where she lives with her passive Spanish grandmother, to Cuba, where she roams freely on a relative's sugarcane plantation, to California, where she finds herself cast upon Hollywood's seedy margins. The thread binding these wanderings is the borrowed finery of the title of this astonishing memoir of one writer's unusual beginnings, which was instantly recognized as a modern classic. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 00102451208
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Hardback. Zustand: Fair. Born in the 1920s to nomadic, bohemian parents, Paula Fox is left at birth in a Manhattan orphanage, then cared for by a poor yet cultivated minister in upstate New York. Her parents, however, soon resurface. Her handsome father is a hard-drinking screenwriter who is, for young Paula, part ally, part betrayer. Her mother is given to icy bursts of temper that punctuate a deep indifference. Never sharing more than a few moments with his daughter, Fox's father allows her to be shuttled from New York City, where she lives with her passive Spanish grandmother, to Cuba, where she roams freely on a relative's sugarcane plantation, to California, where she finds herself cast upon Hollywood's seedy margins. The thread binding these wanderings is the borrowed finery of the title of this astonishing memoir of one writer's unusual beginnings, which was instantly recognized as a modern classic. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers CIN0805071849A
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