Glass Castle : A Memoir

English

ISBN: 074324754X

EAN: 9780743247542

Category: Self-Help / Adult Children Of Substance Abusers/Family & Relationships / Family Relationships/Biography & Autobiography / General/Social Science / Poverty & Homelessness/Biography & Autobiography / Editors, Journalists, Publishers/

Publisher: Scribner

Release Date: 01/06/2006

Synopsis: ???Nothing short of spectacular??? ( Entertainment Weekly), The Glass Castle is the bestselling, critically acclaimed, highly publicized, and celebrated memoir by Jeannette Walls.Millions of readers have been transformed by Jeannette Walls???s award-winning memoir of resilience amid a deeply dysfunctional childhood. 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 to 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 and poised to stand the test of time.

Awards: Alex Awards – null  American Library Association Notable Books – null  Book Sense Book of the Year – null  Christopher Book Awards – null  Evergreen Young Adult Book Award – null  Garden State Childrens Book Awards – null  Garden State Teen Book Award – null  New York Times Notable Books of the Year – null  Quill Awards – null  Virginia Readers Choice Awards – null 

Glass Castle : A Memoir

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.7 inches

Width: 5.25 inches

Length: 8.0 inches

Weight: 9.59 oz

Pages: 304