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Oh the Glory of It All

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Availability:In StockContributor:Sean WilseyAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2006-04-25Pages:512
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780143036913ISBN-10:143036912UPC:9780143036913Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Family & RelationshipsBook Subcategory:Memoirs, Rich & Famous, Dysfunctional FamiliesSize:8.36 x 5.54 x 1.09 inchesWeight:0.9811Product ID:SC4F7F3XVE

Oh the Glory of It All

"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 mother is a 1980s society-page staple, regularly entertaining Black Panthers and movie stars in her marble and glass penthouse. His enigmatic...
Audience: Young Adult
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780143036913ISBN-10:143036912UPC:9780143036913Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Family & RelationshipsBook Subcategory:Memoirs, Rich & Famous, Dysfunctional FamiliesSize:8.36 x 5.54 x 1.09 inchesWeight:0.9811Product ID:SC4F7F3XVE
Sean Wilsey's writing has appeared in The London Review of Books, The Los Angeles Times, and McSweeney's Quarterly, where he is the editor at large. Before going to McSweeney's he worked as an editorial assistant at The New Yorker, a fact checker at Ladies' Home Journal, a letters correspondent at Newsweek, and an apprentice gondolier in Venice, Italy. He was born in San Francisco in 1970 and now...
Publisher: Penguin Books

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