The glass castle : a memoir / Jeannette Walls.
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.
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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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The Glass Castle : A Memoir
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The Glass Castle : A Memoir
THE BELOVED #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER--FROM THE AUTHOR OF HANG THE MOON The extraordinary, one-of-a-kind, "nothing short of spectacular" ( Entertainment Weekly ) memoir from one of the world's most gifted storytellers. The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette's brilliant and charismatic father captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn't want the responsibility of raising a family. The Walls children learned to take care of themselves. They fed, clothed, and protected one another, and eventually found their way to New York. Their parents followed them, choosing to be homeless even as their children prospered. The Glass Castle is truly astonishing--a memoir permeated by the intense love of a peculiar but loyal family. The memoir was also made into a major motion picture from Lionsgate in 2017 starring Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, and Naomi Watts.