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Bad Blood (Sage book)

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Bad Blood
AuthorLorna Sage
LanguageEnglish
GenreMemoir
PublisherFourth Estate
Publication date
10 July 2001
Publication placeWales
Media typePrint (Paperback & Hardback) & AudioBook (Cassette)
Pages288 pp (first edition, paperback)
ISBN1-84115-043-6 (first edition, paperback)
OCLC46512313

Bad Blood is a 2000 work blending collective biography and memoir by the Anglo-Welsh literary critic and academic Lorna Sage.

Set in post-war North Wales, it reflects on the dysfunctional generations of a family, its problems, and their effect on Sage. It won the 2001 Whitbread Book Biography of the Year seven days before Sage died of emphysema.

James Fenton wrote in The New York Review of Books: "What makes the book remarkable is the individual story she has to tell, and which she delivers with such glee."[1]

The Guardian ranked Bad Blood at number 89 in its list of 100 Best Books of the 21st Century in September 2019.[2]

Release details

  • 2001, UK, Fourth Estate (ISBN 1-84115-043-6), Pub. date 10 July 2001, paperback (First edition)

References

  1. ^ Fenton, James (13 June 2002). "The Woman Who Did". Retrieved 21 October 2019. (subscription required)
  2. ^ "100 Best Books of the 21st Century". 21 September 2019. Retrieved December 8, 2019.