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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

  • 27 of 28 copies available at Missouri Evergreen.
  • 2 of 2 copies available at Festus Public. (Show)
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Holds

  • 1 current hold with 28 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Festus Public Library 362.820 Walls (Text) 32017000079471 Adult Non-Fiction Available -
Festus Public Library 362.820 Walls (Text) 32017000079472 Display Available -
Barry Lawrence - Aurora Library 362.82 WAL (Text) 37884103524439 Adult Non-Fiction Available -
Bollinger County Library B WALL (Text) 32713200007733 Biography Available -
Crawford County Library-Bourbon B WAL (Text) 33431000474989 Adult Non-Fiction Available -
Grundy County Jewett Norris 921 WAL (Text) 33577000085166 Biography Available -
Howard County Public Library Walls (Text) 34658000191697 Biography Available -
Jefferson County Library-Arnold B WALLS (Text)
Digital Bookplate: New York Times Best Seller, Non-fiction -- 2017
30000024388773 Biography Available -
Lebanon-Laclede County Library B Walls Walls (Text) 3803551773 Adult Biography Available -
Little Dixie - Huntsville F WALLS (Text) 2004009616 Adult Fiction Shelves Available -
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