Glass Castle: A Memoir

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ISBN 10: 1419339796 ISBN 13: 9781419339790

For use in schools and libraries only. The second child of a scholarly, alcoholic father and an eccentric artist mother discusses her family's nomadic upbringing from the Arizona desert, to Las Vegas, to an Appalachian mining town, during which her siblings and she fended for themselves while their parents outmaneuvered bill collectors and the authorities.

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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.

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