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Revue de presse:
“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)
“Deeply affecting and beautifully written.” (People)
“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)
“Shockingly frank, but also witty, passionate, and utterly lacking self-pity — and surprisingly uplifting.” (Kirkus Reviews)
“Deserves special notice… The intensely personal story will resonate with more than just Anglophiles.” (Booklist)
“Deserves to become a classic.” (The Independent (London))
Présentation de l'éditeur:
“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)
“Deeply affecting and beautifully written.” (People)
“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)
“Shockingly frank, but also witty, passionate, and utterly lacking self-pity — and surprisingly uplifting.” (Kirkus Reviews)
“Deserves special notice… The intensely personal story will resonate with more than just Anglophiles.” (Booklist)
“Deserves to become a classic.” (The Independent (London))
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.”
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- PublisherPerfectBound
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0007132646
- ISBN 13 9780007132645
- BindingTéléchargement
- Number of pages288
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