The Splendid Things We Planned
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The Splendid Things We Planned is a memoir by biographer Blake Bailey that recounts his troubled relationship with his brother and their dysfunctional family.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Splendid Things We Planned canonical | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf | memoir ⓘ |
| author | Blake Bailey ⓘ |
| awarded |
National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction (finalist)
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surface form:
National Book Critics Circle Award finalist
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| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| coverArtist | W. W. Norton & Company design department ⓘ |
| genre | memoir ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 9780393239577 ⓘ |
| hasReception | critically acclaimed ⓘ |
| hasStructure | episodic ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
family dysfunction
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guilt ⓘ memory ⓘ mental illness ⓘ parent-child relationships ⓘ regret ⓘ responsibility ⓘ self-destruction ⓘ sibling rivalry ⓘ |
| hasTone |
darkly comic
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tragic ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | nonfiction ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Blake Bailey
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Scott Bailey ⓘ |
| mediaType |
ebook
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print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| notableFor |
exploration of a destructive sibling relationship
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unflinching portrayal of a troubled family ⓘ |
| pageCount | 256 ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2014 ⓘ |
| publisher | W. W. Norton & Company ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates
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Cheever: A Life ⓘ |
| reviewedIn |
The New York Times
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The New Yorker ⓘ Washington Post ⓘ
surface form:
The Washington Post
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| setting |
New Orleans
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Oklahoma ⓘ |
| subject |
addiction
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brotherhood ⓘ dysfunctional families ⓘ family relationships ⓘ |
| timePeriodCovered | late 20th century ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfEvents |
1970s
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1980s ⓘ 1990s ⓘ |
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