Cheerful Money - Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor (Paperback)

Tad Friend's family is nothing if not illustrious: his father was president of SwarthmoreCollege, and at Smith his mother came in second in a poetry contest judged by W.H. Auden--to Sylvia Plath. For centuries, Wasps like his ancestors dominated American life. But then, in the '60s, their fortunes began to fall. As a young man, Tad noticed that his family tree, for all its glories, was full of alcoholics, depressives, and reckless eccentrics. Yet his identity had already been shaped by the family's age-old traditions and expectations. Part memoir, part family history, andpart cultural study of the long swoon of the American Wasp, "Cheerful Money" is a captivating examination of a cultural crack-up and a man trying to escape its wreckage.

General

Imprint:	Little, Brown
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2010
First published:	July 2010
Authors:	Tad Friend
Dimensions:	210 x 140 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	384
ISBN-13:	978-0-316-00318-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Biography > General
LSN:	0-316-00318-2
Barcode:	9780316003186

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