26 records matched your query       

Author:

Bailey, Blake, 1963-

Title:

The splendid things we planned : a family portrait / Blake Bailey.

Edition:

1st Ed.

Publisher:

W.W. Norton & Co.,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

254 p. 23.5cm.

Subject:

Bailey, Blake,--1963---Childhood and youth.
Bailey, Blake,--1963---Family.
Bailey family.
Authors, American--Biography.
Biographers--United States--Biography.

Summary:

The portrait of the author's family, a family now in ruins. Meet the Baileys: Burck, a prosperous lawyer, his wife, a Dutch immigrant who wishes she could relive her carefree younger days in Greenwich Village, and their sons, Scott a violent alcoholic, and Blake, the younger son. It is a story of a growing crisis culminating in a Christmas ordeal.

ISBN:

0393239578
9780393239577 (hardcover)

LCCN:

2013039720

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

ZBPE245 -- Norelius Community Library (Denison)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

VFPB334 -- Elgin Public Library (Elgin)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

KZPA953 -- Thompson Public Library (Thompson)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

SFPH074 -- Waterloo Public Library (Waterloo)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)