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Jeannette Walls
From Jeannette Walls, the bestselling author of The Glass Castle, a riveting new novel about an indomitable young woman in Prohibition-era Virginia
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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…
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"A rollicking tale." --The Washington Post *"Propulsive." --Associated Press * "Wild, smart, energetic." --Los Angeles Times * "Brilliant and effervescent." --NPR From the #1 bestselling author of The Glass Castle…
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"From the #1 bestselling author of The Glass Castle, the instant New York Times bestseller a "rip-roaring, action-packed" (The New York Times) novel about an indomitable young woman in prohibition-era…
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Sketchbook in hand, Stan Mack haunted the New York City environs, watching, listening, overhearing, and interviewing its inhabitants. He drew a comic strip every week based on what he saw…
For use in schools and libraries only. The second child of a scholarly, alcoholic father and an eccentric artist mother discusses her family’s nomadic upbringing from the Arizona desert, to…
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Decada de los setenta en una pequena ciudad de California. Bean Holladay tiene doce anos y su hermana Liz quince cuando su madre las abandona para encontrarse a si misma…
From Jeannette Walls, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle, comes a riveting new novel about an indomitable young woman in Virginia during Prohibition. Most folk…
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From one of the bestselling memoirists of all time comes a stunning and heartbreaking novel about an intrepid girl who challenges the injustice of the adult world in a triumph…
Includes excerpts from The silver star and Half broke horses.
Original publication and copyright date: 2005.
In the tradition of Mary Karr’s The Liars’ Club and Rick Bragg’s All Over But the Shouting, Walls has written a stunning and life-affirming memoir about surviving a willfully impoverished…
The Glass Castle features explanations of key themes, motifs and symbols, including: strength from hardship; abuse; fire; compassion vs. boundaries; the glass castle; and the Joshua tree.
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The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls - Summary & Analysis Preview Jeannette Walls chronicles all the heartbreak, deprivation, humor, and love of her childhood in The Glass Castle…
