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Bad Blood - (P.S.) by Lorna Sage (Paperback)

Bad Blood - (P.S.) by  Lorna Sage (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Includes P.S. insights, interviews & more.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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 <em>Bad Blood</em>, an internationalbestseller and the winner of the coveted Whitbread Biography Award. Readers ofbooks like <em>Angela's Ashes </em>and <em>The Liar's Club </em>as well as fans ofSage's own lucid and penetrating writing will be captivated by the book thatthe <em>New York Times Book Review </em>said"fills us with wonder and gratitude. . . . Few literary critics have everwritten anything so memorable."<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>"The bad blood had missed a generation. You're just like your grandfather, my mother said."</p><p>Blood trickles down through every generation, seeps into every marriage. An international bestseller and winner of the Whitbread Biography Award, <em>Bad Blood</em> is a tragicomic memoir of one woman's escape from a claustrophobic childhood in post-World War II Britain and the story of three generations of a family--its triumphs and its darkest secrets.</p><p>With wit and a dose of self-deprecating humor, Sage's prose brings to life in vivid detail a period--the 1940s and 1950s--that continues to influence and shape society in the twenty-first century. As a portrait of a family and a young girl's place in it, <em>Bad Blood</em> is unsurpassed.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Deserves special notice... The intensely personal story will resonate with more than just Anglophiles."--<em>Booklist</em><br><br>"Shockingly frank, but also witty, passionate, and utterly lacking self-pity -- and surprisingly uplifting."--<em>Kirkus Reviews</em><br><br>"Deeply affecting and beautifully written."--<em>People</em><br><br>"An award-winning memoir of courageous escape."--Harper's Bazaar<br><br>"Deserves to become a classic."--The Independent (London)<br><br>"Extraordinary... Should stand out for its combination of powerful writing, wicked black humor and social history."--Publishers Weekly Daily<br><br>"In Bad Blood, [Sage] has written a classic."--New York Review of Books<br><br>"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<br>

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