Format:
Book
Author:
Walls, Jeannette.
Title:
The glass castle : a memoir / Jeannette Walls.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Scribner, c2005.
Description:
288 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Summary:
This story is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a penetrating look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette's brilliant 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 hated anything to do with domesticity. 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.
Subjects:
Walls, Jeannette.
Children of alcoholics -- United States -- Biography.
Children of alcoholics -- West Virginia -- Welch -- Biography.
Problem families -- United States -- Case studies.
Problem families -- West Virginia -- Welch -- Case studies.
Poor -- West Virginia -- Welch -- Biography.
Homeless persons -- New York (State) -- New York -- Family relationships.
Notes:
New York Tim, March 13,2005
Libr Journal, February 15,2005
Booklist, February 01,2005
Publ Weekly, January 17,2005
Alex Award, 2006
LCCN:
2004058907
ISBN:
0743247531
9781439156964 (hardcover)
Other Number:
56590629
System Availability:
1
Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
1
Control Number:
56344
Call Number:
BIO WAL
Course Reserves:
0
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1
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