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.
Item details
- ISBN: 074324754X
- ISBN: 9780743247542
- ISBN: 0743247531
- ISBN: 9780743247535
- ISBN: 0739458213
- ISBN: 9780739458211
- ISBN: 9781439156964
- ISBN: 1439156964
- Physical Description: 288, [11] pages : portraits ; 21 cm.
- Edition: First Scribner trade paperback edition.
- Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2006.
- Copyright: 2005
Contents / Notes
General Note: | Includes a preview of the author's book : Half broke horses. |
Formatted Contents Note: | I.A woman on the street -- II. The desert -- III. Welch -- IV. New York City -- V. Thanksgiving. |
Awards Note: | American Library Association - Alex Award winner, 2006 Elle Readers Prize winner, 2005. |
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