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The Splendid Things We Planned
Blake Bailey
A Family Portrait
W. W. Norton
March 2014
On Sale: March 1, 2014
272 pages
ISBN: 0393239578
EAN: 9780393239577
Kindle: B00DX5X98O
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Memoir
The renowned biographer’s unforgettable portrait of
a family in ruins—his own. Meet the Baileys:
Burck, a prosperous lawyer once voted the American Legion’s
“Citizen of the Year” in his tiny hometown of Vinita,
Oklahoma; his wife Marlies, who longs to recapture her
festive life in Greenwich Village as a pretty young German
immigrant, fresh off the boat; their addled son Scott, who
repeatedly crashes the family Porsche; and Blake, the
younger son, trying to find a way through the storm. “You’re
gonna be just like me,” a drunken Scott taunts him. “You’re
gonna be worse.” Winner of the National Book
Critics Circle Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize,
Blake Bailey has been hailed as “addictively readable”
(New York Times) and praised for his ability to
capture lives “compellingly and in harrowing detail”
(Time). The Splendid Things We Planned is
his darkly funny account of growing up in the shadow of an
erratic and increasingly dangerous brother, an exhilarating
and sometimes harrowing story that culminates in one
unforgettable Christmas.
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