The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
THE BELOVED #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER--FROM THE AUTHOR OF HANG THE MOONThe 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.
Jeannette Walls was a journalist in New York after graduating from Barnard College. For more than six years, her book, The Glass Castle, has been a New York Times bestseller. She's also the author of The Silver Star, which was an instant New York Times bestseller, and Half Broke Horses, which was voted one of The New York Times Book Review's ten greatest books of 2009. Walls and her writer husband, John Taylor, live in rural Virginia.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780743247542 |
| ISBN 10 | 074324754X |
| Title | The Glass Castle |
| Author | Jeannette Walls |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
| Year published | 2006-01-17 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Prizes | Winner of ALA Notable Books (Nonfiction) 2006, Short-listed for Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award (Young Adult) 2010, Short-listed for Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award 2008, Short-listed for Green Mountain Book Award 2008 |
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