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Oh The Glory Of It All
de Wilsey, Sean
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1594200513
- ISBN 13
- 9781594200519
- Librería
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Pueblo, Colorado, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Penguin. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 2005. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1594200513 . Signed by Wilsey on the title page. Traces of black ink on the white dust jacket, due to the publisher shipping both white and black dust jacketed copies in the same box. Born to a wealthy older father and San Franciscan socialite, McSweeney's editor Wilsey had a childhood that combined overwhelming privilege with an unusual family dynamic (his father divorced his mother and married her best friend).; 482 pages; Signed by Author .
Sinopsis
"In the beginning we were happy. And we were always excessive. So in the beginning we were happy to excess." With these opening lines Sean Wilsey takes us on an exhilarating tour of life in the strangest, wealthiest, and most grandiose of families. Sean's blond-bombshell mother (one of the thinly veiled characters in Armistead Maupin's bestselling Tales of the City ) is a 1980s society-page staple, regularly entertaining Black Panthers and movie stars in her marble and glass penthouse, "eight hundred feet in the air above San Francisco; an apartment at the top of a building at the top of a hill: full of light, full of voices, full of windows full of water and bridges and hills." His enigmatic father uses a jet helicopter to drop Sean off at the video arcade and lectures his son on proper hygiene in public restrooms, "You should wash your hands first, before you use the urinal. Not after. Your penis isn't dirty. But your hands are." When Sean, "the kind of child who sings songs to sick flowers," turns nine years old, his father divorces his mother and marries her best friend. Sean's life blows apart. His mother first invites him to commit suicide with her, then has a "vision" of salvation that requires packing her Louis Vuitton luggage and traveling the globe, a retinue of multiracial children in tow. Her goal: peace on earth (and a Nobel Prize). Sean meets Indira Gandhi, Helmut Kohl, Menachem Begin, and the pope, hoping each one might come back to San Francisco and persuade his father to rejoin the family. Instead, Sean is pushed out of San Francisco and sent spiraling through five high schools, till he finally lands at an unorthodox reform school cum "therapeutic community," in Italy. With its multiplicity of settings and kaleidoscopic mix of preoccupations-sex, Russia, jet helicopters, seismic upheaval, boarding schools, Middle Earth, skinheads, home improvement, suicide, skateboarding, Sovietology, public transportation, massage, Christian fundamentalism, dogs, Texas, global thermonuclear war, truth, evil, masturbation, hope, Bethlehem, CT, eventual salvation (abridged list)— Oh the Glory of It All is memoir as bildungsroman as explosion.
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- Librería
- Bungalow Books, ABAA
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 6026
- Título
- Oh The Glory Of It All
- Autor
- Wilsey, Sean
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- Edición
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 1594200513
- ISBN 13
- 9781594200519
- Editorial
- Penguin
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2005
- Palabras clave
- 1594200513, Wilsey, Sean; Childhood and youth.; Montandon, Pat.; Wilsey, Al.; Children , of divorced parents; California; San Francisco; Biography.; Children of , celebrities; California; San Francisco; Biography.; San Francisco , (Calif.); Biography., Si
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Bungalow Books, ABAA
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Sobre Bungalow Books, ABAA
We are a family owned bookstore, with an emphasis on crime fiction, and signed books. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of American (ABAA), and the Rocky Mountain Antiquarian Booksellers Association (RMABA), and we exhibit regularly at book fairs.
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