Dimensions
152 x 228 x 42mm
"In the beginning we were happy. And we were always excessive. So in the beginning we were happy to excess"
With these opening lines, Sean Wilsey takes us on an exhilarating tour of life in the strangest, wealthiest, and most grandiose of families.
Sean's blonde-bombshell mother (one of the thinly veiled characters in Armistead Maupin's bestselling 'Tales Of The City') is a 1980 society page staple. His enigmatic father uses a jet helicopter to drop Sean off at the video arcade. 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.
It is a multiplicity of setting and kaleidoscopic mix of preoccupations/sex, Russia, jet helicopters, seismic upheaval, boarding school, Middle Earth, skinheads, home improvement, suicide, skateboarding, massage, Christian fundamentalism, dogs, Texas, truth, evil, masturbation, hope and eventual salvation.
