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THE SPLENDID THINGS WE PLANNED
By: Blake Bailey
A Family Portrait
W. W. Norton
March 2014
On Sale: March 1, 2014
272 pages
ISBN: 0393239578
EAN: 9780393239577
Kindle: B00DX5X98O
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Non-Fiction Memoir
The renowned biographerβs unforgettable portrait of a family in ruinsβhis own. Meet the Baileys: Burck, a prosperous lawyer once voted the American Legionβs βCitizen of the Yearβ 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. βYouβre gonna be just like me,β a drunken Scott taunts him. βYouβre gonna be worse.β Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Blake Bailey has been hailed as βaddictively readableβ (New York Times) and praised for his ability to capture lives βcompellingly and in harrowing detailβ (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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