by Paula Fox · TURNER PUBLICACIONES S.L. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788475066752
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Borrowed Finery is an autobiography by Paula Fox that narrates a childhood and youth marked by abandonment and emotional deprivation. The child Paula Fox, daughter of an indifferent mother and a father of sporadic attentions, grows up in a nomadic environment, moving from one home to another in the care of relatives and acquaintances. These geographical changes reflect emotional changes, and the author describes with maturity the pain caused by these experiences, offering a lesson in narrative effectiveness.
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.
