Author: Walls, Jeannette
Title: The glass castle: a memoir
Published: New York: Scribner, 2005
Description: 288 p. ; 21 cm.
Call Number: HV 5132 W215 2005
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
Subject(s):
- Walls, Jeannette
- Children of alcoholics -- United States -- Biography
- Children of alcoholics -- West Virginia -- Welch -- Biography
- Dysfunctional families -- United States -- Case studies
- Dysfunctional families -- West Virginia -- Welch -- Case studies
- Poor -- West Virginia -- Welch -- Biography
- Homeless persons -- Family relationships -- New York (State) -- New York
Review(s):
- Hockett, Jessica A. "Book Review." Gifted Child Quarterly 52, no. 3 (Summer 2008): 269-270
- Walls, Jeannette. "Truth and Consequences." Publishers Weekly 252, no. 37 (September 19, 2005): 74
- Zvirin, Stephanie. "The Glass Castle (Book)." Booklist 101, no. 11 (February 2005): 923
Read: May 27, 2011
