 ...A book is like a garden carried in the pocket... Chinese Proverb
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Zapraszam do zakupu książki: BAD BLOOD
by
LORNA SAGE
Książka używana, w języku angielskim Stan książki: bdb
Oprawa: miękka
Ilość stron: 281
Rok wydania: 2001
Daily Telegraph
'Bad Blood is pretty much in a class of its own . . . It is a measure of her achievement that she can turn the peculiarities of her own past - and they are peculiar - into a narrative that speaks for the whole of post-war Britian . . . This is not just an exquisite personal memoir, it is a vital piece of our collective past.'
Doris Lessing
'This could have been the saddest book you have ever read, but because of Lorna Sage's relish in the details, her exuberant celebration of the vitality of this clever, surviving girl, it is as enjoyable a book as I remember reading.'
Sunday Times
'Told with a mixture of humour, passion and searing intelligence that makes this a riveting and uplifting story.' From a childhood of gothic proportions in a vicarage on the Welsh borders, through her adolescence, leaving herself teetering on the brink of the 1960s, Lorna Sage brings to life a vanished time and place, and illuminates the lives of three generations of women. Lorna Sage's memoir of childhood and adolescence brings to life her eccentric family and somewhat bizarre upbringing in the small town of Hanmer, on the border between Wales and Shropshire. The period as well as the place is evoked with crystal clarity: from the 1940s, dominated for Lorna by her dissolute but charismatic vicar grandfather, through the 1950s, where the invention of fish fingers revolutionised the lives of housewives like Lorna's mother, to the brink of the 1960s, where the community was shocked by Lorna's pregnancy at 16, an event which her grandmother blamed on "the fiendish invention of sex".
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