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Borrowed finery : a memoir / Paula Fox.

LIBRA PS3556.O94 Z469 2001 copy 2
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Fox, Paula.
Contributor:
Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Fox, Paula--Childhood and youth.
Fox, Paula.
Novelists, American--20th century--Biography.
Novelists, American.
Genre:
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Penn Provenance:
Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
Physical Description:
216 pages ; 21 cm
Edition:
First Owl Books edition.
Place of Publication:
New York : Henry Holt, 2002.
Summary:
Born in the 1920s to nomadic and 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. One of America's most brilliant fiction writers offers her first book in a decade--a heartbreaking memoir of girlhood lost.
Notes:
"An Owl book."
"Reading group guide"--Cover.
ISBN:
0805071849
9780805071849
0805068155
9780805068153
OCLC:
50767586

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