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The glass castle : a memoir / Jeannette Walls.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781439156964
- Physical Description: 288 p.
- Publisher: New York ; Scribner, c2005.
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- 0 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- 3 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cookstown Branch | 362.82092 Walls | 31681010410611 | NONFICPBK | Canceled Transit | - |
- Baker & Taylor
In a new hardcover edition of the best-selling, award-winning memoir, the 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 Appalachia--during which her siblings and she fended for themselves while their parents outmaneuvered bill collectors and the authorities. - Baker & Taylor
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. - Simon and Schuster
MORE THAN EIGHT YEARS ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIST
The extraordinary, one-of-a-kind, ânothing short of spectacularâ (Entertainment Weekly) memoir from one of the worldâs 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, Jeannetteâs brilliant and charismatic father captured his childrenâs 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 didnât 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 astonishingâa 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.
