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The glass castle : a memoir / Jeannette Walls. - 1st Scribner trade pbk. ed. - New York : Scribner, 2006. - 288 p. ; 21 cm.
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.
074324754X (pbk.) 9780743247542 (pbk.) 0743247531 9780743247535
Walls, Jeannette.
Children of alcoholics--United States
Children of alcoholics--West Virginia--Welch
Problem families--United States
Problem families--West Virginia--Welch
Poor--West Virginia--Welch
Homeless persons--Family relationships--New York (State)--New York.
362.82092 Wal 9
The glass castle : a memoir / Jeannette Walls. - 1st Scribner trade pbk. ed. - New York : Scribner, 2006. - 288 p. ; 21 cm.
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.
074324754X (pbk.) 9780743247542 (pbk.) 0743247531 9780743247535
Walls, Jeannette.
Children of alcoholics--United States
Children of alcoholics--West Virginia--Welch
Problem families--United States
Problem families--West Virginia--Welch
Poor--West Virginia--Welch
Homeless persons--Family relationships--New York (State)--New York.
362.82092 Wal 9