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Oh the Glory of It All (Hardcover)

by Sean Wilsey (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 496 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Press (19 May 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1594200513
  • ISBN-13: 978-1594200519
  • Product Dimensions: 23.9 x 15.5 x 4.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,327,964 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Seanderella's Wicked Step Mother, 27 Jan 2006
By Paul Crampin (London United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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I had read the review of this in the London Review of Books not realising that it was a classical piece of nepotism ie. the LRB reviewing one of their own contributors - as revealed by the dust jacket.

The accounts of his step mother are hilarious. She is portrayed as a comic book villain and her treatment of the author is laugh out loud in its nastiness. The feat which Wilsey pulls off in this book is that you don't end up feeling indifferent about this spoiled west coast rich kid. He grasps the problem that the best memoir is the one which is the most honest and he really does lay himself bare for us to see all of his (once) hidden sides. He really should be congratulated for this as this is what generates interest and sympathy with the narrator rather than ennui.

The best parts are those which deal with his experiences in what can only be described as experimental schools and I felt genuinely pleased for him that he was saved by the last of these.

He describes his account as being "a book about his father" but this really is a book about his mother and step-mother. his father comes across as a rather weak figure but with a giant ego - a direct contrast to the narrator who we see as a survivor with giant insecurities. But the mothers are the real stars of the show - both nuts, but one nice nuts and one nasty nuts.

I would recommend this as a good read to all middle class, sensitive white boys - they will get the story and the humour. For anyone else I am so not sure. I enjoyed it very much but it is never going to be a desert island read...wait for the paperback.

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