{"product_id":"9781250050144","title":"The Looking Glass Brother : The Preposterous, Moving, Hilarious, and Frequently Terrifying Story of My Gilded Age Long Island Family, My Philandering Father, and the Homeless Stepbrother Who Shares My Name","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe Looking Glass Brother\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Peter von Ziegesar\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter von Ziegesar had just moved to New York and was awaiting the birth of his first child when a dark shape stepped from the looking glass of his past onto a Greenwich Village street. \u003ci\u003eThe Looking Glass Brother\u003c\/i\u003e is Peter von Ziegesar's remarkable memoir of a life that began in the exquisite enclaves of Long Island's Gilded Age families and is now lived, in part, as the keeper of his homeless and schizophrenic stepbrother, Little Peter. \u003ci\u003eThe Looking Glass Brother\u003c\/i\u003e is a feast of memories from one of the last, great estates on Long Island's Peacock Point. Summers were filled with the glistening water of the Long Island Sound, pristine beaches, croquet games, butlers in formal wear serving dinners, and an endless stream of cocktails. When, after a string of affairs, Peter's father left his mother and remarried, the idyll was broken and several stepchildren, including Little Peter, entered von Ziegesar's life. Little Peter was an angelic and brilliant young boy, a violin prodigy called by a teacher \"the next Paganini,\" who spiraled down during adolescence to become one more homeless man living on the street. In this bighearted memoir, Peter von Ziegesar mixes memories of life on Peacock Point with the turbulent joys of urban fatherhood and the responsibility he feels for his brother, a man with the same name as his, but who lives a desperate and very different life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Brotherly love is evident here, while drugs, lavish estates, suicide, divorce, philandering, and the backdrop of [New York City] round out a touching inside view of comfort and homelessness.” —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This provocative looking-glass tale of two nonconformist brothers, one thriving within a nurturing family circle, the other a perpetual outsider because of mental illness, shines with emotional veracity, sensory precision, cosmic absurdity, all kinds of pain, and steadfast love.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Kansas City Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Elegantly constructed and written with both stringency and heart, \u003ci\u003eThe Looking Glass Brother\u003c\/i\u003e fluently braids memories of an ultraprivileged childhood and the bleak realities of mental illness, substance abuse, and homelessness today.” —\u003ci\u003eEli Gottlieb, author of The Boy Who Went Away and The Face Thief\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781250050144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40642270789838,"sku":"9781250050144","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781250050144","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}