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Blood feud by lisa alther, 9780762782253, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. This book is a storyand a pretty good onebut it is not the story of the hatfields and the mccoys. Jun 23, 2014 blood feud author also wrote obama birther fiction edward kleins new book alleges hillary clinton has a bad heart. A blood feud is a feud, usually between families, with a cycle of retaliatory violence. A blood feud is a longlasting, bitter disagreement between two or more groups of people, particularly family groups. 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 romeoandjuliet interlude that eventually led to the death.
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