The Splendid Things We Planned: A Family Portrait
Language: English
Published by WW Norton & Co, 2014
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- Title
- The Splendid Things We Planned: A Family Portrait
- Author
- Blake Bailey
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co
- Publication year
- 2014
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0393239578
- ISBN 13
- 9780393239577
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Review
One of the most surprising and riveting memoirs of the season.--Trisha Ping
A haunting portrait of more than one tortured soul and a heartfelt probing of the limits of brotherly love.--Brendan Driscoll
An extraordinary memoir, written with the love and rage of a brother and son, and controlled with the skill of a master biographer.--Geoff Dyer
[A] vivid, tender book [written with] humor and frankness...[and] a novelist's flair... A sleek, dramatic, authentically lurid story fueled by a candid fraternal rivalry.--Janet Maslin
Bailey maintains an almost impossible balance between stringent assessment...and a kind of unflappable empathy... The book is as clear-eyed and heartbreaking as any of his acclaimed biographies...yet every bit as compelling.--Kate Tuttle
Manages to do justice to the tedium of chronic dysfunction without becoming tedious itself...Compelling because of Bailey's emotional acuity as well as his wit, which emerges as an adaptive coping mechanism--a way to survive despair by streaking it with light.--Leslie Jamison
Captivating... Bailey maintains a lacerating tone, and examines with the coolness of a detective the staggering things that we can do to the people we love.
Very entertaining [and] immensely enjoyable--but also profoundly, persuasively sad. Like Mary Karr or David Sedaris, Bailey doesn't try to manufacture an answer to the questions posed by his family's failings.--Elyse Moody
It seems fitting that biographer Bailey tells the story of his own life by chronicling his brother Scott's alcoholism and drug addiction... [His] story captures the contradictions and tensions that simmer just below the surface of the family...and Bailey tells it wonderfully, in a tragicomic tone that slowly reveals the true depths to which his older brother has sunk.
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