The Glass Castle: Jeannette Walls - Softcover

Jeannette Walls

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0349010706 ISBN 13: 9780349010700

Publisher: Virago, 2017

Synopsis

Now a major motion picture starring Brie Larson, Naomi Watts and Woody Harrelson.

This is a startling memoir of a successful journalist's journey from the deserted and dusty mining towns of the American Southwest, to an antique filled apartment on Park Avenue. Jeanette Walls narrates her nomadic and adventurous childhood with her dreaming, 'brilliant' but alcoholic parents.

At the age of seventeen she escapes on a Greyhound bus to New York with her older sister; her younger siblings follow later. After pursuing the education and civilisation her parents sought to escape, Jeanette eventually succeeds in her quest for the 'mundane, middle class existence' she had always craved. In her apartment, overlooked by 'a portrait of someone else's ancestor' she recounts poignant remembered images of star watching with her father, juxtaposed with recollections of irregular meals, accidents and police-car chases and reveals her complex feelings of shame, guilt, pity and pride toward her parents.

About this title

Review:

Walls doesn't pull her punches. Walls's parents - just two of the unforgettable characters in this excellent, unusual book - were a matched pair of eccentrics. And raising four children didn't conventionalise either of them. [Walls has] a fantastic storytelling knack. (Publishers Weekly)

Just read the first pages of THE GLASS CASTLE by Jeannette Walls, and I defy you not to go on. It's funny, and sad, and quirky, and loving. I was incredibly touched by it. (#NAME?)

Like JD Salinger or Hemingway before her, Jeannette Walls has the talent of knowing exactly how to let a story tell itself, crafted without self-pity or analysis or judgement (Independent on Sunday)

A terrific story, grippingly told (Sunday Times)

Book Description:

Published to accompany the major motion picture starring Brie Larson, Naomi Watts and Woody Harrelson.

About this edition

• Publisher: Virago
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0349010706
• ISBN 13: 9780349010700
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352