The Clothes on Their Backs

The Clothes on Their Backs - Paperback

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The Clothes on Their Backs - Paperback

The Clothes on Their Backs - Paperback

by Linda Grant
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Book Overview

Orange Prize Winner and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2008, Llinda Grant has created an enchanting portrait of a woman who, having endured unbearable loss, finds solace in the family secrets her estranged uncle reveals.

Vivien Kovacs, sensitive and bookish, grows up sealed off from the world by her timid Hungarian refugee parents. She loses herself in books and reinvents herself according to her favorite characters, but it is through clothes that she ultimately defines herself.

Against her father's wishes, she forges a relationship with her estranged uncle, a notorious criminal, who, in his old age, wants to share his life story. As he reveals the truth about her family's past, Vivien, having endured unbearable loss, learns how to be comfortable in her own skin and how to be alive in the world.

Linda Grant is a spectacularly humanizing writer whose morally complex characters explore the line between selfishness and self-preservation. In vivid and supple prose, Grant has created a powerful story of family, love, and the hold the past has on the present.
ISBN9781439142363
Author Linda Grant
PublisherScribner Book Company
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedNovember 2008
LanguageENG- English
Pages304
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Linda Grant

Linda Grant is an accomplished British novelist, whose books have won the Women's Prize and been shortlisted for the Booker, and is known for writing about the Jewish experience. She lives in London.

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