The Glass Castle: A Memoir

SKU: 9781844081820
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The Glass Castle: A Memoir

SKU: 9781844081820
Author: Jeanette Walls
Paperback·Coming of Age

This is a startling memoir of a successful journalist's journey from the deserted and dusty mining towns of the American Southwest, to an antique filled apartment on Park Avenue. Jeanette Walls narrates her nomadic and adventurous childhood with her dreaming, 'brilliant' but alcoholic parents.

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At the age of seventeen, she escapes on a Greyhound bus to New York with her older sister; her younger siblings follow later. After pursuing the education and civilization her parents sought to escape, Jeanette eventually succeeds in her quest for the 'mundane, middle-class existence' she had always craved.

In her apartment, overlooked by a portrait of someone else's ancestor' she recounts poignant remembered images of star-watching with her father, juxtaposed with recollections of irregular meals, accidents, and police car chases and reveals her complex feelings of shame, guilt, pity, and pride toward her parents.

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Format
Paperback
Pages
352
Publisher
Little Brown
Language
English
ISBN
9781844081820

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