Now a major motion picture starring Brie Larson, Naomi Watts and Woody Harrelson. 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. 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 civilisation 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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN-13
9780349010700
eBay Product ID (ePID)
238792388
Product Key Features
Author
Jeannette Walls
Publication Name
The Glass Castle
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Business
Publication Year
2017
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
126mm
Item Width
196mm
Item Weight
280g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Jeannette Walls
Topic
Memorials
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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