Oh the glory of it all, Sean Wilsey
Type
Label
Oh the glory of it all, Sean Wilsey
Language
eng
resource.biographical
autobiography
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Oh the glory of it all
Oclc number
57069292
Responsibility statement
Sean Wilsey
Summary
Wilsey takes us on a tour of life in the strangest, wealthiest, and most grandiose of families. His blond-bombshell mother (one of the thinly veiled characters in Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City) is a 1980s society-page staple, entertaining Black Panthers and movie stars in her marble and glass penthouse; his enigmatic father uses a jet helicopter to drop Sean off at the video arcade. When Sean turns nine, 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 traveling the globe, a retinue of multiracial children in tow. Her goal: peace on earth (and a Nobel Prize). Sean meets Indira Gandhi, Helmut Kohl, Menachem Begin, and the pope; then he is pushed out of San Francisco and sent spiraling through five high schools, till he finally lands at an unorthodox reform school cum "therapeutic community" in Italy.--From publisher description
Creator
Subject
- Wilsey, Sean -- Childhood and youth
- Wilsey, Al
- Montandon, Pat
- Children of divorced parents -- California -- San Francisco -- Biography
- Children of celebrities -- California -- San Francisco -- Biography
- San Francisco (Calif.) -- Biography
- Children of divorced parents -- California -- San Francisco -- Biography
- Children of celebrities -- California -- San Francisco -- Biography
- San Francisco (Calif.) -- Biography
Incoming Resources
- Has instance2
Outgoing Resources
- Creator1
- Subject9
- Wilsey, Sean -- Childhood and youth
- Wilsey, Al
- Montandon, Pat
- Children of divorced parents -- California -- San Francisco -- Biography
- Children of celebrities -- California -- San Francisco -- Biography
- San Francisco (Calif.) -- Biography
- Children of divorced parents -- California -- San Francisco -- Biography
- Children of celebrities -- California -- San Francisco -- Biography
- San Francisco (Calif.) -- Biography
- Mapped to2