The Splendid Things We Planned: A Family Portrait
(OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, OverDrive Listen)

Blake Bailey. (2014). The Splendid Things We Planned: A Family Portrait. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing.

Blake Bailey. 2014. The Splendid Things We Planned: A Family Portrait. Blackstone Publishing.

Blake Bailey, The Splendid Things We Planned: A Family Portrait. Blackstone Publishing, 2014.

Blake Bailey. The Splendid Things We Planned: A Family Portrait. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing, 2014.

OverDrive Product Record

images

• cover:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0887-1/{B9A8B1D9-9B60-465D-8A2B-52D57CF150A4}Img100.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• thumbnail:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0887-1/{B9A8B1D9-9B60-465D-8A2B-52D57CF150A4}Img200.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover150Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0887-1/B9A/8B1/D9/{B9A8B1D9-9B60-465D-8A2B-52D57CF150A4}Img150.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover300Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0887-1/B9A/8B1/D9/{B9A8B1D9-9B60-465D-8A2B-52D57CF150A4}Img400.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg

formats

1. • identifiers:
     1. • type: PublisherCatalogNumber
        • value: 9781982403898
     2. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781482964240
   • name: OverDrive MP3 Audiobook
   • id: audiobook-mp3
2. • identifiers:
     1. • type: PublisherCatalogNumber
        • value: 9781982403898
     2. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781482964240
   • name: OverDrive Listen
   • id: audiobook-overdrive

mediaType

Audiobook

primaryCreator

• role: Author
• name: Blake Bailey

title

The Splendid Things We Planned

dateAdded

2014-03-07T16:03:00-05:00

contentDetails

1. • href: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=141&titleID=1553236
   • type: text/html
   • account:
     • name: Sacramento Public Library (CA)
     • id: 1151

sortTitle

Splendid Things We Planned A Family Portrait

crossRefId

1553236

subtitle

A Family Portrait

id

b9a8b1d9-9b60-465d-8a2b-52d57cf150a4

starRating

3.6

OverDrive MetaData

isPublicDomain

False

formats

1. • duration: 08:08:56
   • fileName: SplendidThingsWePlanned9781482964240
   • partCount: 9
   • fileSize: 234771846
   • identifiers:
     1. • audience: retailer
        • type: PublisherCatalogNumber
        • value: 9781982403898
     2. • audience: library
        • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781482964240
   • rights:
     1. • type: PlayOnPC
        • value: 1
     2. • type: PlayOnPCCount
        • value: -1
     3. • type: BurnToCD
        • value: 1
     4. • type: BurnToCDCount
        • value: -1
     5. • type: PlayOnPM
        • value: 1
     6. • type: TransferToSDMI
        • value: 1
     7. • type: TransferToNonSDMI
        • value: 1
     8. • type: TransferCount
        • value: -1
     9. • type: CollaborativePlay
        • value: 0
     10. • type: PublicPerformance
         • value: 0
     11. • type: TranscodeToAAC
         • value: 1
   • name: OverDrive MP3 Audiobook
   • isReadAlong: False
   • id: audiobook-mp3
   • onSaleDate: 3/4/2014
   • samples:
     1. • source: Part 1
        • formatType: audiobook-mp3
        • url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0887-1/1553236-TheSplendidThingsWePlanned.mp3
     2. • source: Part 1
        • formatType: audiobook-overdrive
        • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=B9A8B1D9-9B60-465D-8A2B-52D57CF150A4&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
2. • duration: 08:09:00
   • fileName: SplendidThingsWePlanned9781482964240
   • partCount: 0
   • fileSize: 234724619
   • identifiers:
     1. • audience: retailer
        • type: PublisherCatalogNumber
        • value: 9781982403898
     2. • audience: library
        • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781482964240
   • name: OverDrive Listen
   • isReadAlong: False
   • id: audiobook-overdrive
   • onSaleDate: 3/3/2014
   • samples:
     1. • source: Part 1
        • formatType: audiobook-mp3
        • url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0887-1/1553236-TheSplendidThingsWePlanned.mp3
     2. • source: Part 1
        • formatType: audiobook-overdrive
        • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=B9A8B1D9-9B60-465D-8A2B-52D57CF150A4&.epub-sample.overdrive.com

creators

1. • role: Author
   • fileAs: Bailey, Blake
   • bioText:

     Blake Bailey is the author of award-winning biographies of John Cheever, Richard Yates, and Charles Jackson, and he is at work on the authorized biography of Philip Roth. His articles and reviews have appeared in Vanity Fair, Slate, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere. He lives in Virginia with his wife and daughter.

   • name: Blake Bailey
2. • role: Narrator
   • fileAs: Meskimen, Jim
   • name: Jim Meskimen

imprint

Blackstone Audio, Inc., and Buck 50 Productions, LLC

publishDate

2014-03-03T00:00:00-05:00

edition

Unabridged

isOwnedByCollections

True

title

The Splendid Things We Planned

fullDescription

The renowned biographer's unforgettable portrait of a family in ruins—his own

Meet the Baileys: Burck, a prosperous lawyer once voted the American Legion's "Citizen of the Year" in his tiny hometown of Vinita, Oklahoma; his wife Marlies, who longs to recapture her festive life in Greenwich Village as a pretty young German immigrant, fresh off the boat; their addled son Scott, who repeatedly crashes the family Porsche; and Blake, the younger son, trying to find a way through the storm. "You're gonna be just like me," a drunken Scott taunts him. "You're gonna be worse."

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Blake Bailey has been hailed as "addictively readable" (New York Times) and praised for his ability to capture lives "compellingly and in harrowing detail" (Time). The Splendid Things We Planned is his darkly funny account of growing up in the shadow of an erratic and increasingly dangerous brother, an exhilarating and sometimes harrowing story that culminates in one unforgettable Christmas.

reviews

1. • premium: False
   • source: David Sedaris
   • content: "This fine and haunting memoir touches the spot where family, responsibility, and helplessness converge. It's not a pretty place, but boy has Blake Bailey made it memorable. The Splendid Things We Planned is as forceful and revealing as any of the author's excellent biographies, and that's really saying something."
2. • premium: True
   • source:
   • content:

     November 25, 2013
     It seems fitting that biographer Bailey tells the story of his own life by chronicling his brother Scott’s alcoholism and drug addiction, which causes him to descend into violence and madness. Told in chronological order, starting with the marriage of his straight-laced lawyer father to his bohemian, German-immigrant mother, Bailey’s story captures the contradictions and tensions that simmer just below the surface of the family, as they try to live a normal suburban life in Oklahoma. But as Scott goes from being a self-absorbed teen to a pothead, college dropout, and junkie, the family dynamic unravels, breaking up the marriage as the author himself heads toward alcoholism, debauchery, and ennui—though not to his brother’s depths. But this is Scott’s story, and Bailey tells it wonderfully, in a tragicomic tone that slowly reveals the true depths to which his older brother has sunk.

popularity

142

links

• self:
  • href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1BWwAAAA2I/products/b9a8b1d9-9b60-465d-8a2b-52d57cf150a4/metadata
  • type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json
• shareInLibby:
  • href: https://link.overdrive.com/share?q=VLMXAMShdiw
  • type: text/HTML

id

b9a8b1d9-9b60-465d-8a2b-52d57cf150a4

starRating

3.5

images

• cover:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0887-1/{B9A8B1D9-9B60-465D-8A2B-52D57CF150A4}Img100.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• thumbnail:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0887-1/{B9A8B1D9-9B60-465D-8A2B-52D57CF150A4}Img200.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover150Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0887-1/B9A/8B1/D9/{B9A8B1D9-9B60-465D-8A2B-52D57CF150A4}Img150.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover300Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0887-1/B9A/8B1/D9/{B9A8B1D9-9B60-465D-8A2B-52D57CF150A4}Img400.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg

isPublicPerformanceAllowed

False

languages

1. • code: en
   • name: English

subjects

1. • value: Biography & Autobiography
2. • value: Nonfiction

publishDateText

03/03/2014

otherFormatIdentifiers

1. • type: ISBN
   • value: 9781482964271

mediaType

Audiobook

shortDescription

The renowned biographer's unforgettable portrait of a family in ruins—his own

Meet the Baileys: Burck, a prosperous lawyer once voted the American Legion's "Citizen of the Year" in his tiny hometown of Vinita, Oklahoma; his wife Marlies, who longs to recapture her festive life in Greenwich Village as a pretty young German immigrant, fresh off the boat; their addled son Scott, who repeatedly crashes the family Porsche; and Blake, the younger son, trying to find a way through the storm. "You're gonna be just like me," a drunken Scott taunts him. "You're gonna be worse."

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Blake Bailey has been hailed as "addictively readable" (New York Times) and praised for his ability to capture lives "compellingly and in harrowing detail" (Time). The Splendid Things We Planned is his darkly funny account of growing up in the shadow of an erratic and increasingly dangerous brother, an exhilarating and...

sortTitle

Splendid Things We Planned A Family Portrait

crossRefId

1553236

awards

1. • source: The National Book Critics Circle
   • value: National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist

subtitle

A Family Portrait

publisher

Blackstone Publishing

bisacCodes

1. • code: BIO026000
   • description: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs
2. • code: PSY020000
   • description: Psychology / Neuropsychology