The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
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.
Walls, Jeannette: - Jeannette Walls graduated from Barnard College and was a journalist in New York. Her memoir, The Glass Castle, has been a New York Times bestseller for more than six years. She is also the author of the instant New York Times bestsellers The Silver Star and Half Broke Horses, which was named one of the ten best books of 2009 by the editors of The New York Times Book Review. Walls lives in rural Virginia with her husband, the writer John Taylor.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780743247535 |
| ISBN 10 | 0743247531 |
| Title | The Glass Castle |
| Author | Jeannette Walls |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Scribner Book Company |
| Year published | 2005-03-01 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Prizes | Winner of Garden State Teen Book Award (Nonfiction) 2008, Winner of Virginia Readers Choice Award (High School) 2009, Winner of Christopher Awards (Books for Adults) 2006, Winner of Alex Awards 2006, Winner of Books for a Better Life (Inspirational Memoir) 2005, Commended for Book Sense Book of the Year Award (Adult Nonfiction) 2006, Short-listed for Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers 2007, Short-listed for Evergreen Young Adult Book Award 2008 |
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