a ISBN 1-594-200513 (hc.-)

a ISBN 0-14-3036920 (pbk.-)

a Original cataloging agency NEU GrandLibrary

a Classification number CT275.W5797

b Item number A3 2006

a Dewey Classification 979.4/61053/092

a Dewey Classification B

a Personal name Wilsey, Sean.

a Title Oh the glory of it all /

c Statement of responsibility, etc Sean Wilsey.

h Medium BOOK

a Place of publication, distribution, etc New York :

b Name of publisher, distributor, etc Penguin Press,

c Date of publication, distribution, etc 2006.

a Extent 625 p. :

b Other physical details ill. ;

c Dimensions 17 cm.

a Summary, etc "Sean Wilsey takes us on a tour of life in the strangest, wealthiest, and most grandiose of families." "Sean's blond-bombshell mother (one of the thinly veiled characters in Armistead Maupin's bestselling Tales of the City) regularly entertains Black Panthers and movie stars in her marble and glass penthouse, "eight hundred feet in the air above San Francisco; an apartment at the top of a building at the top of a hill: full of light, full of voices, full of windows full of water and bridges and hills."" "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 first invites him to commit suicide with her, then has a vision of salvation that requires packing her Louis Vuitton luggage and traveling the globe, a retinue of multiracial children in tow. Her goal: peace on earth (and a Nobel Prize: "Somebody has to win it, Sean. Why not me?"). After meeting Indira Gandhi, Helmut Kohl, Menachem Begin, and the pope, Sean hopes each one might come back to San Francisco and convince his father to rejoin the family. Instead, his father in the clutches of a fairy-tale-worthy stepmother, Sean is ejected from San Francisco and sent spiraling through four boarding schools, till he finally lands at an unorthodox reform school cum "therapeutic community" in Italy."--BOOK JACKET.

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Children of divorced parents

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Children of celebrities