Bibliograph

The glass castle, a memoir, Jeannette Walls

Type

Label

The glass castle, a memoir, Jeannette Walls

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

portraits

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The glass castle

Oclc number

65210928

Responsibility statement

Jeannette Walls

Series statement

Book club kit

Sub title

a memoir

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

Table Of Contents

I.A woman on the street -- II. The desert -- III. Welch -- IV. New York City -- V. Thanksgiving

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