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The renowned biographer's remarkable portrait of a family in ruins - his own. Meet the Baileys: Burck, a booming lawyer once voted the North american Legion's "Citizen of the entire year" in his very small hometown of Vinita, Oklahoma; his partner Marlies, who longs to recapture her festive life in Greenwich Town as a pretty young German immigrant, fresh from the boat; their addled boy Scott, who repeatedly crashes the family Porsche; and Blake, the younger son, looking for a way through the storm. "You're gonna be just like me," a drunken Scott taunts him. "You're gonna be worse." Victor of the Country wide Book Critics Circle Prize and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Blake Bailey has been hailed as "addictively readable" (New York Times) and praised for his capability to capture lives "compellingly and in harrowing aspect" (Time). The Splendid Things We Planned is his darkly funny profile of growing up in the darkness of the erratic and more and more dangerous brother, an exhilarating and sometimes harrowing account that culminates in a single unforgettable Christmas.
