Oh the Glory of It All (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Oh the Glory of It All Saturday, August 1 2009.

• Sean’s blond-bombshell mother regularly entertains Black Panthers and movie stars in the family’s marble and glass penthouse. His enigmatic father uses a jet helicopter to drop Sean off at the video arcade. The three live happily together "eight-hundred feet in the air above San Francisco; in 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." But when his father divorces his mother and marries her best friend, Sean’s life blows apart. His memoir shows us how he survived, spinning out a "deliriously searing and convincing" portrait of a wicked stepmother ( The New York Times Book Review ), a meeting with the pope, sexual awakening, and a tour of "the planet’s most interesting reform schools" ( Details ).

Shelfari edited the contributors of Oh the Glory of It All Thursday, July 23 2009.

• Added a contributor: Sean Wilsey: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Oh the Glory of It All Friday, July 17 2009.

• WHEN DESCRIBING MY MOTHER it is impossible to overstate her grandeur, her haughtiness, her generosity, her old Hollywood star power, her immaturity, her joy, her entitlement, her suffering.