Borrowed Finery: A Memoir
A Autobiography, Biography, Biography Memoir book. I read a collection of Fox's essays and stories a while back and wanted to read this memoir. Fox was...
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...
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- Pages: 224 pages
- ISBN: 9780312425197 / 312425198
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Wow, after reading my previous enthusiasm below, I feel rather bad for myself. Heh. This book was hard to read, which I don't necessarily mean as a bad thing. I remembeber enjoying of Fox's The Coldest Winter her wit and dry, raised eyebrow approach to, well, the absurdity of post-war Europe if not also life itself. But Borrowed Finery,... I read a collection of Fox's essays and stories a while back and wanted to read this memoir. Fox was almost literally the baby in a basket left on the steps of the orphanage by her freewheeling parents. In her case, her grandmother scooped her back up and brought her home. And so begins a life lived all over the world, with all kinds... Although the story is at times interesting, I've had difficulty slogging through the book. I'm about partway through (and may never finish)...It's not a terrible, but the deliberately disjointed telling of the story makes it hard to keep from daydreaming. It's already failed my personal "so-good-I-can't-stop-reading" and "potentially-good-keep-reading"...
