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PublisherScribner

ISBN-101501171585

ISBN-139781501171581

eBay Product ID (ePID)239701400

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Book TitleGlass Castle : a Memoir

Number of Pages320 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2017

TopicWomen, Editors, Journalists, Publishers, Adult Children of Substance Abusers, Personal Memoirs, Poverty & Homelessness, General, Literary, Dysfunctional Families

GenreFamily & Relationships, Social Science, Self-Help, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorJeannette Walls

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight8.8 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.2 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Reviews The Glass Castle is the kind of story that keeps you awake long after the rest of the house has fallen asleep., Walls has joined the company of writers such as Mary Karr and Frank McCourt who have been able to transform their sad memories into fine art., Some people are born storytellers. Some lives are worth telling. The best memoirs happen when these two conditions converge. In The Glass Castle, they have., Walls has a God-given knack for spinning a yarn, and The Glass Castle is nothing short of spectacular., Charles Dickens's scenes of poverty and hardship are no more audacious and no more provocative than those in the pages of this stunning memoir., Walls has a God-given knack for spinning a yarn, and The Glass Castle is nothing short of spectacular., Some people are born storytellers. Some lives are worth telling. The best memoirs happen when these two conditions converge. In The Glass Castle, they have., On the eighth day, when God was handing out whining privileges, he came upon Jeannette Walls and said, 'For you, an unlimited lifetime supply.' Apparently, Walls declined His kind offer., The Glass Castle is the kind of story that keeps you awake long after the rest of the house has fallen asleep., Each memory is more incredible than the last... That Walls recounts them so well and in such detail is our good fortune.

Dewey Edition22

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Decimal362.82/092 B

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SynopsisNow a major motion picture from Lionsgate starring Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, and Naomi Watts. MORE THAN SEVEN YEARS ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIST The perennially bestselling, 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.