Paula Fox: 27 books

An exotic, heartbreaking memoir that should finally earn Paula Fox, a distinguished novelist and children's book writer, the audience she has for decades deserved Paula Fox has long been acclaimed as one of America's most brilliant fiction writers. Borrowed Finery, her first book in nearly...

Alla vigilia del loro ennesimo viaggio, questa volta per l’Africa, Laura Maldonada Clapper e suo marito Desmond si trovano in una stanza d’albergo a New York. Sorseggiano scotch e soda in attesa dei loro tre ospiti, che non incontrano da molto tempo: Clara Hansen, la timida e ombrosa figlia avuta...

A hilarious tale from Newbery Medal winner Paula Fox: Maurice loves to collect things—but what happens when he collects too many things?   Eight-year-old Maurice is a collector. It doesn’t matter how big or how small it is—if he likes something, he’ll bring it home with him. His newest addition...

New York, fine anni Sessanta. Otto e Sophie Bentwood sono una tranquilla coppia di mezza età, senza figli e senza più molto da dirsi. Nulla sembra poter scalfire la loro serenità borghese finché, un pomeriggio, l’innocua visita di un gatto randagio increspa le tranquille acque della loro vita....

In this elegant and affecting companion to her "extraordinary" memoir, Borrowed Finery, a young writer flings herself into a Europe ravaged by the Second World War (The Boston Globe) In 1946, Paula Fox walked up the gangplank of a partly reconverted Liberty with the classic American...

Subito dopo la sua nascita nel 1923, Paula viene abbandonata dal padre, uno sceneggiatore di Hollywood con il debole per l’alcol, e dalla madre, starlette cubana glamorous e anaffettiva. Soccorsa dalla nonna, la bambina passa di mano in mano e di città in città: da New York a Cuba, dal convitto...

“Not only can Fox see, she can hear, she can feel.”—Zadie Smith, Harper’s This gathering of Paula Fox’s short work spans her illustrious career, from 1965 to the present including perfectly turned stories; pointed, engaging essays; and raw yet eloquent memoir.

"A rare and wondrous thing....[Fox] knows how to create a character."—Vogue Luisa de la Cueva was born on the Caribbean island of Malagita, of a plantation owner's son and a native woman, a servant in the kitchen. Her years on Malagita were sweet with the beauty of bamboo, banana,...

"Chekhovian. . . . Every line of Fox's story, every gesture of her characters, is alive and surprising."—Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times On the eve of their trip to Africa, Laura Maldonada Clapper and her husband, Desmond, sit in a New York City hotel room, drinking scotch-and-sodas...

Luisa de la Cueva nasce negli anni Trenta in un piccolo villaggio sull’isola caraibica di San Pedro, dove trascorre la sua infanzia. Dopo i primi anni passati nella piantagione di canna da zucchero dove sua madre è a servizio, si troverà poco più che adolescente ad abbandonare il conforto di...

"The best first novel I've read in quite a long time…A merciless uncovering of the exurban wastelands of the spirit." —New York Review of Books Poor George gives us George Mecklin, a restless, soft-spoken teacher at a private school in Manhattan. Depressed by his life of vague...

"Vividly rendered...haunting....[Paula Fox] writes with silken ease and a sensitivity to nuance."—Newsday In 1941, twenty-three-year-old Helen Bynum leaves home for the first time and sets out from rural New York to find her Aunt Lulu, an aging actress in New Orleans. There she...

**Winner of the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award:**A young girl learns some hard truths about human nature in this thought-provoking, beautifully crafted novel. Tomorrow, Emma’s uncle is coming to take her to his house on Long Island while her father undergoes surgery and her mother stays with...

Newbery Medal–winning author Paula Fox’s gripping and sensitive portrayal of a teenage girl who discovers her father is not the man she thought he was.   Catherine Ames’s father, Harry, has always been a mystery. Her parents divorced when she was three, and she has spent most of her life in...