Bad Blood - A Memoir

Informationen zum Autor Lorna Sage’s books include ‘Women in the House of Fiction’ (1992), ‘The Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writing in English’ (1999), a short monograph on Angela Carter, and ‘Bad Blood’, which won the 2000 Whitbread Biography Award and became a number one bestseller. She died in January 2001. Klappentext A 10th annniversary repackaged edition from the highly regarded literary critic and academic. Follows her story from childhood in the Welsh borders to the brink of the 1960s. Women need this kind of book but perhaps men need it more, to give the sort of understanding which we still lack of how girls actually grow up' Margaret Forster. Zusammenfassung From a childhood of gothic proportions in a vicarage on the Welsh borders! through adolescence! leaving herself teetering on the brink of the 1960's! Lorna Sage vividly and wittily brings to life a vanished time and place and illuminates the lives of three generations of women.

Product details

• Authors: Lorna Sage, Sage Lorna
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.07.2001
• EAN: 9781841150437
• ISBN: 978-1-84115-043-7
• No. of pages: 281
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 197 mm x 19 mm
• Series: 4th Estate Matchbook Classics; 4th Estate Matchbook Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Wales, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, True stories, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Memoirs, Social & cultural history, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, True stories: general, Autobiography: literary, Local interest, family history & nostalgia, Local & family history, nostalgia, Social and cultural history, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Autobiography: writers, Lorna Sage;Wales;teenage pregnancy