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Oh the Glory of It All (Part 3) - Sean Wilsey (CD)
Title: Title: Oh the Glory of It All (Part 3) Author: Sean Wilsey Genre: Biography / Family Memoir Format: CD, 5 CDs (Unabridged) Synopsis: "Sean's blond-bombshell mother (one of the thinly veiled characters in Armistead Maupin's bestselling Tales of the City) regularly entertains Black Panthers and movie stars in her marble and glass penthouse, "eight hundred feet in the air above San Francisco; 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."" When Sean, "the kind of child who sings songs to sick flowers," turns nine years old, 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 packing her Louis Vuitton luggage and traveling the globe, a retinue of multiracial children in tow. Her goal: peace on earth (and a Nobel Prize: "Somebody has to win it, Sean. Why not me?"). After meeting Indira Gandhi, Helmut Kohl, Menachem Begin, and the pope, Sean hopes each one might come back to San Francisco and convince his father to rejoin the family. Instead, his father in the clutches of a fairy-tale-worthy stepmother, Sean is ejected from San Francisco and sent spiraling through four boarding schools, till he finally lands at an unorthodox reform school cum "therapeutic community" in Italy. Review: Publishers Weekly Wilsey's Eggersesque memoir of growing up rich and dysfunctional is dependent for effect on its deadpan, forthright tone of voice, underscoring the impact of his humorous, unsettled childhood. Brick performs this with flair, inhabiting that voice with ease. Born to a wealthy older father and San Franciscan socialite, Wilsey had a childhood that combined overwhelming privilege with an unusual family dynamic (his father divorced his mother and married her best friend). He mines his lonely childhood amid the lap of luxury for its absurdist comic potential, finding nuggets of humor in the wreckage of a fortunate yet empty upbringing. Brick underplays the comic and emotional undercurrents with poker-faced sophistication. His oft-hushed tones belie the comedy of situations; he renders lines like "Sean, I have hot flashes.... I just thought you'd want to know what's going on with your mother" with as little fuss as possible. Capturing Wilsey's knowing, self-mocking tone, Brick's performance of this confusing, bittersweet childhood is, like the book itself, just the right mixture of comic and tragic. Simultaneous release with Penguin hardcover (Reviews, May 2). (June) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.