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Nov 25, 2006 · In Blood Feud, Colorado Avalanche beat writer Adrian Dater not only submits that the Red Wings-Avalanche rivalry was the most feverish match-up in recent years, but also that there was none better played. No fewer than twenty players have or will eventually make it to the Hall of Fame; the best scorers were matched up against the best goalies ...
Feb 5, 2013 · Blood Feud joins a host of key paradigm-shifting books about mountain identity, including: Miners, Millhands, and Mountaineers by Ronald Eller; and The Mind of the South by W. J. Cash. Alther’s personal connection classes her book also with great Appalachian memoirs, such as John O’Brien’s At Home in the Heart of Appalachia.”
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- Lisa Alther New York Times bestselling author of Blood Feud: The Hatfields and the McCo
Jan 1, 2012 · The book also covered the feud in first 125 pages. The rest of the book was an examination of the aftermath, an attempt to explain the reasons behind the feud, the author’s own family ties to the feud, and the challenges of Appalachian living. While I think people might be interested in reading about the famous Hatfield-McCoy feud, this is ...
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Jan 1, 1977 · Blood Feud was the first Rosemary Sutcliff book I read, back in my teens, and since then it's become overshadowed in my mind by her other, more famous works. Rereading it as adult, I was a little surprised to find the story stronger than I recalled. Short, bloody, ambivalent, with a bittersweet tang.
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Feb 5, 2013 · America’s most notorious family feud began in 1865 with the murder of a Union McCoy soldier by a Confederate Hatfield relative of "Devil Anse" Hatfield. More than a decade later, Ranel McCoy accused a Hatfield cousin of stealing one of his hogs, triggering years of violence and retribution, including a Romeo-and-Juliet interlude that eventually led to the death of one of McCoy’s daughters.
Praise for Robert B. Parker’s Blood Feud “Lupica, an award-winning sports columnist, author of 40 books, and longtime friend of the late Parker, nails the Sunny Randall character and the Boston criminal milieu that Parker created. The patter is snappy.
