{"product_id":"fox-p-borrowed-finery-9780007137237","title":"Fox P Borrowed Finery","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Paula Fox\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Harper Collins Publ. UK\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Harper Collins Publ. UK\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Personal Memoirs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in the 1920s to young, bohemian parents, Paula Fox was left at birth in a Manhattan orphanage. Rescued by her grandmother, Fox eventually landed with a gentle, poor minister in upstate New York. Uncle Elwood, as he came to be known, gave Paula a secure and loving home for many years, but her parents constantly re-surface. Her father is a good-looking, hard-drinking Hollywood screenwriter (among his credits is The Last Train to Madrid, which Graham Greene declared was the worst movie I ever saw), and her mother, icily glamorous, is given to almost psychotic bursts of temper that punctuate a deep, disturbing indifference. They exercise, probably without even realising it, a sort of drip-drip cruelty, a cruelty by stealth, upon Paula, as they shuttle her from one exotic place to another, from a Cuban sugar plantation to Hollywood to Montreal to Florida, from relative to relative, never spending more than a few moments with her, maybe 2 days, maybe 2 weeks, before they leave her and move on.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Collins Publ. UK","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47892232405143,"sku":"9780007137237","price":1174.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780007137237.webp?v=1781186160","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/fox-p-borrowed-finery-9780007137237","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}