9780393239577 - The Splendid Things We Planned: A Family Portrait de Bailey, Blake (17 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.25.

Hardcover. Etat : As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.25.

Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Etat : Good. 1st Edition. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Etat : Like New. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact with no nicks or tears. Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds of any kind.

hardcover. Etat : Fine. LIKE NEW!!! Has a red or black remainder mark on bottom/exterior edge of pages.

hardcover. Etat : Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1st. 8vo, 254 pp.

Etat : New. New dust jacket.

hardcover. Etat : Good.

Hard Cover. Etat : Fine to As New. Etat de la jaquette : Fine to As New. First Printing. 254 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

hardcover. Etat : Good.

Hardcover. Etat : Used Very Good. First Edition. Very Good books: May have minor surface flaws, such as store stickers, prev. owner name, and light soiling, but are generally clean and tight. No underlining or highlighting.

Hardcover. Etat : New. Etat de la jaquette : New. 1st Edition. Stated First Edition With The Number Line Indicating A First Printing. The Book Is Bound Within Boards With One Quarter Dark Brown Over Gold Paper. White Lettering On The Spine. 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. You're Gonna Be Just Like Me, A Drunken Scott Taunts Him. You;Re Gonna Be Worse. - Front Flap.

Hardcover. Etat : New.

hardcover. Etat : New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 255 pages. Published in 2014. The author's debut memoir. One of Blake Bailey's finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. Presents Blake Bailey's "The Splendid Things We Planned: A Family Portrait". Fathers, sons, and brothers: A literary elegy for family, brotherhood, and life itself. "Author of acclaimed biographies of Richard Yates ('A Tragic Honesty'), John Cheever ('Cheever: A Life'), and Charles Jackson ('Farther And Wilder'), Blake Bailey once remarked that his aim in writing such books was 'to reconcile the paradox of a highly compartmentalized personality'. This memoir suggests that Bailey's fascination with compartmentalized people, and his explicating the simultaneous bleakness and beauty of their lives, stems from personal experience. Bailey's older brother, Scott, careened from one disaster to the next, bewildering and disappointing everyone around him. Though Scott has functional moments, including a stint in the Marines, during which he became a Master Sharpshooter, such moments become footnotes to a larger pattern of wrecked cars, jail time, and intoxicated self-pity. Their father, an upright Oklahoma attorney, tries to wash his hands of his son as Scott becomes increasingly unhinged. As his own life begins to blossom, Bailey remains an ambivalent participant in this sad family saga, torn by his antipathy for his brother yet aware of all that they share" (Brendan Driscoll). "You can hate a person with all your heart and soul, and still long for that person" (Blake Bailey). An absolute "must-have" title for Blake Bailey collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed, dated (shortly after publication), and inscribed in black ink-pen on the title page by the author: "To Rita, Thanks for coming, Best, Blake Bailey 3.14.14". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. The recipient, who is named, obtained the signature during a public signing event. Then she apparently put the copy away as it remains in brand-new condition. This title is a contemporary classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed, post-publication dated, and inscribed copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent editions, or are remainder-marked. A rare signed copy thus. One of the most brilliant American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER BLAKE BAILEY TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0393239578. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Etat : Very good. Etat de la jaquette : Very good. Robert Devriendt (Jacket Art), and Marlies Bailey (illustrateur). [10], 254, [4] pages. Frontis illustration. Signed by the author sticker on front of DJ. Signed by the author on the title page. Blake Bailey (born July 1, 1963) is an American writer. Bailey is known for his literary biographies of Richard Yates, John Cheever, Charles Jackson, and Philip Roth. He is the editor of the Library of America omnibus editions of Cheever's stories and novels. In an interview with The New York Times published on November 17, 2012, Philip Roth said that Bailey was his official biographer and at work on that project.[7] While Roth was alive, he gave Bailey exclusive access to papers, friends and family, and made himself available for extensive interviews This work won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. The Splendid Things We Planned is Bailey's darkly funny account of growing up in the shadow of an erratic and increasingly dangerous brother, an exhilarating and sometimes harrowing story that culminates in one unforgettable Christmas. Though a memoir, this literary biography reveals the gripping true-life novel at the core of the author's own experience. A brother's lament, a hard-won, clear-eyed view of one family's tortured history, The Splendid Things We Planned is everything we hope for in a modern memoir. Blake Bailey's triumph here is both personal and literary: A beautiful book, rising out of the ruins. 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. You're gonna be just like me, a drunken Scott taunts him. You're gonna be worse. Blake Bailey has been hailed as addictively readable and praised for his ability to capture lives compellingly and in harrowing detail. Derived from a Publishers Weekly article: It seems fitting that biographer Bailey tells the story of his own life by chronicling his brother Scott's alcoholism and drug addiction, which causes him to descend into violence and madness. Told in chronological order, starting with the marriage of his straight-laced lawyer father to his bohemian, German-immigrant mother, Bailey's story captures the contradictions and tensions that simmer just below the surface of the family, as they try to live a normal suburban life in Oklahoma. But as Scott goes from being a self-absorbed teen to a pothead, college dropout, and junkie, the family dynamic unravels, breaking up the marriage as the author himself heads toward alcoholism, debauchery, and ennuiâ"though not to his brother's depths. But this is Scott's story, and Bailey tells it wonderfully, in a tragicomic tone that slowly reveals the true depths to which his older brother has sunk. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated].