The Splendid Things We Planned: A Family Portrait
Presents a darkly humorous account of growing up in a prosperous, eccentric family with an older brother whose erratic and increasingly dangerous behavior threatens them all.
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- ISBN-13
- 9780393239577
- Genre
- Topics
- Family dysfunctionSibling relationshipsAddiction and mental illness
Awards
- National Book Critics Circle Award for AutobiographyShortlistedMajor(2014)
Other awarded books from Blake Bailey
- Cheever: A Life (2009)1 win · 16 score
- A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates (2013)0 wins · 4 score
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