Pub Date: January 17, 2006
Dewey: B
Lexile Code: 1010
Features: Price on Product
Target Age Group: NA to NA
Physical Info: 0.80" H x 7.90" L x 5.10" W ( 0.60 lbs) 304 pages
BISAC Categories:
Biography and Autobiography | Editors Journalists Publishers | Family and Relationships | General | Memoirs | Literary Figures | Women
Description: 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, eccentric, and severely misguided family.
Brief description: Jeannette Walls graduated from Barnard College and was a journalist in New York. Her memoir, The Glass Castle, has been a New York Times bestseller for more than eight years. She is also the author of the instant New York Times bestsellers The Silver Star and Half Broke Horses, which was named one of the ten best books of 2009 by the editors of The New York Times Book Review. Walls lives in rural Virginia with her husband, the writer John Taylor.
Review Quotes: "Walls has joined the company of writers such as Mary Karr and Frank McCourt who have been able to transform their sad memories into fine art."