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The glass castle : a memoir / Jeannette Walls.

Walls, Jeannette. (Author).

Summary:

In the tradition of Mary Karr's "The Liars' Club" and Rick Bragg's "All Over But the Shouting," Jeannette Walls has written a stunning and life-affirming memoir about surviving a willfully impoverished, eccentric and severely misguided family. The child of an alcoholic father and an eccentric artist mother discusses her family's nomadic upbringing, during which she and her siblings fended for themselves while their parents outmaneuvered bill collectors and the authorities.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780743247542
  • ISBN: 074324754X
  • Physical Description: 288 pages, 11 unnumbered page : portraits ; 21 cm
  • Edition: First Scribner trade paperback edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2006.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Publisher, publishing date and paging may vary.
Includes a preview of the author's book : Half broke horses.
Target Audience Note:
1010L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.9 12 105049.
Awards Note:
New York Times Best Seller, Non-fiction 2017

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Available copies

  • 26 of 28 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
  • 2 of 2 copies available at Festus Public. (Show)
  • 2 of 2 copies available at Festus Public Library.

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  • 1 current hold with 28 total copies.
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