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The Glass Castle: A Memoir
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THE BELOVED #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER--FROM THE AUTHOR OF HANG THE MOON
The 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.
The memoir was also made into a major motion picture from Lionsgate in 2017 starring Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, and Naomi Watts.
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Book Details
ISBN:
9781439156964
EAN:
9781439156964
Binding:
Hardcover
Pages:
304
Authors:
Jeannette Walls
Publisher:
Scribner Book Company
Published Date: 2009-06-10
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loved the book
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. The struggles of the Walls children was intense, and I was able to identify with a lot of it. The only reason I didn't give this 5 stars is the author clearly writes the parents as just eccentric, when the truth is they were neglectful at best, but abusive as well. From the squalor and poverty they forced their children to live, the alcohol abuse of the father, the way they continued to oppress their children, moving them from place to place to escape bill collectors, not taking their oldest daughter to the hospital when she was burned so badly she had blisters all over her legs. The list goes on and on. That being said, it was a great read. I admit I spent the whole day reading it.
This is an excellent book
This is a very interesting and well-written book.
It's good reading all the way through. Can't put it down.
