by Paula Fox · Flamingo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780007137237
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«Borrowed Finery» is Paula Fox's memoir, published by Flamingo in paperback (272 pages, in English).
Paula Fox reconstructs her drifting childhood: born in 1923, she was abandoned by her parents in a Manhattan orphanage before her grandmother rescued her. Between New York, Cuba and the fringes of Hollywood, the girl passed from hand to hand, with occasional reunions with her parents and appearances by celebrities of the era. A story of survival and self-discovery.
Subtitled 'A Memoir', the work was published in 2003 by Flamingo. It is a standalone title, not part of a series.
Recommended for readers of memoirs and biographies, particularly those interested in childhood, classic Hollywood and twentieth-century American literature.
Paula Fox was an American author of novels for adults and children and of two memoirs. Fox won the Newbery Medal in 1974 for her novel The Slave Dancer. She also won the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1978 and won a 1983 National Book Award in category Children's Fiction (paperback) for A Place Apart. In the mid-1990s, she enjoyed a revival as her adult fiction was championed by a new generation of American writers. In 2011, she was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame.
