Praise for
The Glass Castle
The autobiographer is faced with the daunting challenge of...attempt-ing to understand,forgive and even love the witch....Readers will mar-vel at the intelligence and resilience ofthe Walls kids.”—Francine Prose,
The New York Times Book Review
“A pull-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps,thoroughly American story.”—
Kirkus Reviews
“Charles Dickens has nothing on Jeannette Walls,author of
The GlassCastle,
the unflinching story about her grueling,nomadic childhood.Dickens’scenes ofpoverty and hardship are no more audacious and nomore provocative than those in the pages ofthis stunning memoir.”—
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“An excellent book....Walls has a fantastic storytelling knack.”—
Publishers Weekly
“
The Glass Castle
will at times exhaust you,occasionally fill you with fury,and finally leave you in slack-jawed wonderment.”—
National Review Online
“Jeannette Walls has decided to tell all,and the result is this rivetingmemoir.”—
Glamour
“You’ll root for the Walls family.”—
Newsweek
“
The Glass Castle
is the kind ofstory that keeps you awake long after therest ofthe house has fallen asleep.”—
Vogue
Te Glass Castle
A Memoir
Jeannette Walls
Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn non-conormity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had our children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, mov-ing among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was acharismatic, brilliant man who, when sober, captured his children’s imagi-nation, teaching them physics, geology, and above all, how to embracelie earlessly. Rose Mary, who painted and wrote and couldn’t stand theresponsibility o providing or her amily, called hersel an “excitement ad-dict.” Cooking a meal that would be consumed in teen minutes had noappeal when she could make a painting that might last orever.Later, when the money ran out, or the romance o the wandering lie aded,the Walls retreated to the dismal West Virginia mining town -- and theamily -- Rex Walls had done everything he could to escape. He drank. Hestole the grocery money and disappeared or days. As the dysunction o the amily escalated, Jeannette and her brother and sisters had to end orthemselves, supporting one another as they weathered their parents’ betray-als and, nally, ound the resources and will to leave home. What is so astonishing about Jeannette Walls is not just that she had theguts and tenacity and intelligence to get out, but that she describes herparents with such deep aection and generosity. Hers is a story o triumphagainst all odds, but also a tender, moving tale o unconditional love in aamily that despite its proound faws gave her the ery determination tocarve out a successul lie on her own terms.For two decades, Jeannette Walls hid her roots. Now she tells her ownstory. A regular contributor to MSNBC.com, she lives in New York andLong Island and is married to the writer John aylor.
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