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Oh the glory of it all
- Title
- Oh the glory of it all / Sean Wilsey.
- Author
- Wilsey, Sean.
- Publication
- New York : Penguin Press, 2005.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 05-8706 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- 482 p.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- Wilsey takes us on a tour of life in the strangest, wealthiest, and most grandiose of families. His blond-bombshell mother (one of the thinly veiled characters in Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City) is a 1980s society-page staple, entertaining Black Panthers and movie stars in her marble and glass penthouse; his enigmatic father uses a jet helicopter to drop Sean off at the video arcade. When Sean turns nine, 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 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; then he 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.--From publisher description.
- Subject
- Call Number
- JFE 05-8706
- ISBN
- 1594200513
- LCCN
- 2004063420
- OCLC
- 57069292
- Author
- Wilsey, Sean.
- Title
- Oh the glory of it all / Sean Wilsey.
- Imprint
- New York : Penguin Press, 2005.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 05-8706