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The glass castle : a memoir

Author: Jeannette Walls
Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2006.
Edition/Format: Book : Biography : English : 1st Scribner trade pbk. edView all editions and formats
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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  Read more...
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Named Person: Jeannette Walls
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jeannette Walls
ISBN: 074324754X 9780743247542 0743247531 9780743247535
OCLC Number: 65210928
Description: 288 p. ; 21 cm.
Responsibility: Jeannette Walls.

Abstract:

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.

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