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The Splendid Things We Planned: A Family Portrait – $295
by rgonzalezr
The renowned biographer’s unforgettable portrait of a family in ruins—his own. Meet the Baileys: Burck, a prosperous lawyer once voted the American Legion’s “Citizen of the Year” in his tiny hometown of Vinita, Oklahoma; his wife Marlies, who longs to recapture her festive life in Greenwich Village as a pretty young German immigrant, fresh off the boat; their addled son Scott, who repeatedly crashes the family Porsche; and Blake, the younger son, trying to find a way through the storm. […]
Categories: Biografía • Tags: 2014, Biography, Blake Bailey, erratic, Family, Novel, Pulitzer, W.W. Norton