Oh the Glory of It All by Sean Wilsey

Oh the Glory of It All by Sean Wilsey

"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 father uses a jet helicopter to drop Sean off at the video arcade and lectures his son on proper hygiene in public restrooms. When Sean, "the kind of child who sings songs to sick flowers," turns nine years old, his father divorces his mother and marries her best friend. Sean's life blows apart. His mother has a "vision" of salvation that requires packing her Louis Vuitton luggage and traveling the globe, a retinue of multiracial children in tow.

Follow Sean as he candidly recounts his life growing up in a wealthy family all while discovering who he is amongst San Francisco's social elite.

Sean Wilsey's work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and McSweeney's Quarterly, where he is the editor at large. He was an editorial assistant at The New Yorker, a fact checker at Ladies' Home Journal, a letters reporter at Newsweek, and an apprentice gondolier in Venice, Italy, before joining McSweeney's. He was born in 1970 in San Francisco and currently resides with his wife, Daphne Beal, and son, Owen.

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ISBN 13	9780143036913
ISBN 10	0143036912
Title	Oh the Glory of It All
Author	Sean Wilsey
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2006-04-25
Number of pages	512
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