The glass castle
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Jeannette Walls.
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Walls, Jeannette; Children of alcoholics -- United States -- Biography; Children of alcoholics -- West Virginia -- Welch -- Biography; Problem families -- United States -- Case studies; Problem families -- West Virginia -- Welch -- Case studies; Poor -- West Virginia -- Welch -- Biography; Homeless persons -- New York (State) -- New York -- Family relationships
Genres: Biography.; Case studies.
Description: 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.