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Blood Ties

By Lash, Jennifer

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Set mainly in Ireland, Jennifer Lash's dark, exhilarating novel is about the redemptive power of love. It tells of Violet Farr and her loveless marriage, her wild, unfathomable son and his illegitimate son, all of them bound together in a repeating pattern of exile and homecoming, rejection and, finally, acknowledgement and love. As Elizabeth Buchan wrote in the London Times, "Jennifer Lash is a Lawrentian in so far as she mines her material for the blood and thunder roaring between spouses, and between parents and children."

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ISBN
978-1-58234-003-6
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA


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Reviewed on September 15, 1998

That love makes things bloom while its lack blights may seem a cliche, but the late Lash's treatment of the subject is anything but. Haughty, strait-laced Violet Farr rejects her son (from her marriage to hapless Cecil, a closeted homosexual) and is even less fond of her illegitimate grandson, named Spencer for the tavern where his mother worked. But she lives...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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