What's happening: Saturday 11 October 2008
An evening with Linda Grant
Linda Grant
Date: Saturday, 11 October 2008 | 8:00pm - 9:30pm
Location: Performance Space
Ticket Prices: £5/£3
Join Linda Grant as she reads from her new novel, The Clothes on Their Backs ,followed by a conversation with Jane Davis, director of The Reader Organisation. Grant was born in Liverpool, the child of Russian and Polish Jewish immigrants. Since the publication of her debut novel, The Cast Iron Shore, her work has been much admired for its examination of identity, both personal and cultural. Her latest work is a story about concealed pasts, dark places and stark choices and how the clothes we wear define us all. It has been longlisted for the 2008 Orange Prize and is on the shortlist for the Booker Prize.
Tapes, stick. These objects, this ordinary rubbish belonging to people who were dead, had survived them all. And the girl I had let go was also there, somewhere, just waiting for me to put on a red silk jersey dress to make her presence known” from The Clothes on Their Backs.
Linda Grant, The Clothes on Their Backs, (Virago, February 2008)
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