The Resource The glass castle : a memoir, Jeannette Walls
The glass castle : a memoir, Jeannette Walls
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The item The glass castle : a memoir, Jeannette Walls represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item The glass castle : a memoir, Jeannette Walls represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College.
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- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Scribner trade paperback edition
- Extent
- 288, [11] pages
- Note
- Includes a preview of the author's book : Half broke horses
- Contents
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- I.A woman on the street
- II. The desert
- III. Welch
- IV. New York City
- V. Thanksgiving
- Isbn
- 9780739458211
- Label
- The glass castle : a memoir
- Title
- The glass castle
- Title remainder
- a memoir
- Statement of responsibility
- Jeannette Walls
- Subject
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- Autobiographies
- Autobiography
- Biography
- Book group discussion kits.
- Case studies
- Child of Impaired Parents
- Children of alcoholics
- Children of alcoholics -- Biography
- Children of alcoholics -- Biography
- Children of alcoholics -- Biography -- West Virginia
- Children of alcoholics -- United States -- Biography
- Children of alcoholics -- West Virginia | Welch -- Biography
- Dysfunctional families
- Dysfunctional families -- United States -- Case studies
- Dysfunctional families -- West Virginia | Welch -- Case studies
- Family Relations
- Homeless Persons
- Homeless persons
- Homeless persons -- Family relationships -- New York (State) | New York
- Homeless persons -- New York (State) -- New York | Family relationships
- Homeless persons -- New York, N.Y
- New York (State) -- New York
- Poor
- Poor -- Biography -- Welch (W. Va.)
- Poor -- Biography -- West Virginia
- Poor -- Welch, W. Va. -- Biography
- Poor -- West Virginia | Welch -- Biography
- Poverty
- United States
- Alcoholics
- Walls, Jeannette
- Walls, Jeannette
- West Virginia
- West Virginia -- Welch
- Walls, Jeannette
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Awards note
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- American Library Association - Alex Award winner, 2006
- Elle Readers Prize winner, 2005.
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- CLE
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Walls, Jeannette
- Dewey number
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- 362.82092
- B
- Illustrations
- portraits
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- HV5132
- LC item number
- .W35 2006
- Literary form
- non fiction
- NLM call number
- WS 105.5.F2
- NLM item number
- W215 2006
- Series statement
- Book club kit
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Walls, Jeannette
- Walls, Jeannette
- Walls, Jeannette
- Children of alcoholics
- Children of alcoholics
- Dysfunctional families
- Dysfunctional families
- Poor
- Homeless persons
- Homeless persons
- Poor
- Poor
- Children of alcoholics
- Children of alcoholics
- Children of alcoholics
- Children of alcoholics
- Poor
- Homeless persons
- Children of alcoholics
- Dysfunctional families
- Homeless persons
- Poor
- New York (State)
- United States
- West Virginia
- Alcoholics
- West Virginia
- Child of Impaired Parents
- Family Relations
- Homeless Persons
- Poverty
- Label
- The glass castle : a memoir, Jeannette Walls
- Link
- Note
- Includes a preview of the author's book : Half broke horses
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- I.A woman on the street -- II. The desert -- III. Welch -- IV. New York City -- V. Thanksgiving
- Control code
- ocm65210928
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- First Scribner trade paperback edition
- Extent
- 288, [11] pages
- Isbn
- 9780739458211
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 978743247542
- Other physical details
- portraits
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) o65210928
- (OCoLC)65210928
- Label
- The glass castle : a memoir, Jeannette Walls
- Link
- Note
- Includes a preview of the author's book : Half broke horses
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- I.A woman on the street -- II. The desert -- III. Welch -- IV. New York City -- V. Thanksgiving
- Control code
- ocm65210928
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- First Scribner trade paperback edition
- Extent
- 288, [11] pages
- Isbn
- 9780739458211
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 978743247542
- Other physical details
- portraits
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) o65210928
- (OCoLC)65210928
Subject
- Autobiographies
- Autobiography
- Biography
- Book group discussion kits.
- Case studies
- Child of Impaired Parents
- Children of alcoholics
- Children of alcoholics -- Biography
- Children of alcoholics -- Biography
- Children of alcoholics -- Biography -- West Virginia
- Children of alcoholics -- United States -- Biography
- Children of alcoholics -- West Virginia | Welch -- Biography
- Dysfunctional families
- Dysfunctional families -- United States -- Case studies
- Dysfunctional families -- West Virginia | Welch -- Case studies
- Family Relations
- Homeless Persons
- Homeless persons
- Homeless persons -- Family relationships -- New York (State) | New York
- Homeless persons -- New York (State) -- New York | Family relationships
- Homeless persons -- New York, N.Y
- New York (State) -- New York
- Poor
- Poor -- Biography -- Welch (W. Va.)
- Poor -- Biography -- West Virginia
- Poor -- Welch, W. Va. -- Biography
- Poor -- West Virginia | Welch -- Biography
- Poverty
- United States
- Alcoholics
- Walls, Jeannette
- Walls, Jeannette
- West Virginia
- West Virginia -- Welch
- Walls, Jeannette
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