Pub Date: October 6, 2009
Dewey: B
LCCN: 2011288732
Lexile Code: 1010
Features: Dust Cover, Illustrated, Price on Product - Canadian, Price on Product
Target Age Group: NA to NA
Physical Info: 1.03" H x 9.18" L x 6.38" W ( 1.23 lbs) 304 pages
BISAC Categories:
Biography and Autobiography | Memoirs | Women | Editors Journalists Publishers | Literary Figures | Family and Relationships | General
Description: Original publication and copyright date: 2005.
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: "Jeannette Walls has carved a story with precision and grace out of one of the most chaotic, heartbreaking childhoods ever to be set down on the page. This deeply affecting memoir is a triumph in every possible way, and it does what all good books should: it affirms our faith in the human spirit."
-- Dani Shapiro, author of Family History