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.
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