Bad Blood (P.S.) - Softcover

Sage, Lorna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062080245 ISBN 13: 9780062080240

Verlag: PERENNIAL, 2011

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Book by Sage Lorna

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Críticas:

"Deserves to become a classic."--The Independent (London)

"Deserves special notice... The intensely personal story will resonate with more than just Anglophiles."--Booklist

"Shockingly frank, but also witty, passionate, and utterly lacking self-pity -- and surprisingly uplifting."--Kirkus Reviews

"Deeply affecting and beautifully written."--People

"In Bad Blood, [Sage] has written a classic."--New York Review of Books

"Magnificent. . . . A superb memoir of a daughter of the 1950s who got knocked up, but not knocked down."--Maureen Corrigan, National Public Radio's Fresh Air

"An award-winning memoir of courageous escape."--Harper's Bazaar

"Extraordinary... Should stand out for its combination of powerful writing, wicked black humor and social history."--Publishers Weekly Daily

Reseña del editor:

Bestselling author Lorna Sage delivers the tragicomic memoirof her escape from a claustrophobic childhood in post-WWII Britain—and thestory of the weddings and relationships that defined three generations of herfamily—in Bad Blood, an internationalbestseller and the winner of the coveted Whitbread Biography Award. Readers ofbooks like Angela’s Ashes and The Liar’s Club as well as fans ofSage’s own lucid and penetrating writing will be captivated by the book thatthe New York Times Book Review said“fills us with wonder and gratitude. . . . Few literary critics have everwritten anything so memorable.”

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: PERENNIAL
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0062080245
• ISBN 13: 9780062080240
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 281