Bad Blood
A Memoir
By Lorna Sage
(Harper Perennial, Paperback, 9780062080240, 320pp.)
Publication Date: November 2011
Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Paperback, Hardcover
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“The bad blood had missed a generation. You’re just like your grandfather, my mother said.”
Blood trickles down through every generation, seeps into every marriage. An international bestseller and winner of the Whitbread Biography Award, Bad Blood 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.
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, Bad Blood is unsurpassed.
An influential literary critic, Lorna Sage was a professor of English at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England. Her other books include Women in the House of Fiction, The Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writing in English, and a study of the novelist Angela Carter. She died in 2001.
“Shockingly frank, but also witty, passionate, and utterly lacking self-pity — and surprisingly uplifting.”
-Kirkus Reviews
“Deserves to become a classic.”
-The Independent (London)
“Extraordinary… Should stand out for its combination of powerful writing, wicked black humor and social history.”
-Publishers Weekly Daily
“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
“Deserves special notice… The intensely personal story will resonate with more than just Anglophiles.”
-Booklist
“An award-winning memoir of courageous escape.”
-Harper's Bazaar
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