珍妮特·沃尔斯(Jeannette Walls),美国著名记者。撰有《闲聊:流言世界的内幕》、《闲聊:流言如何变成新闻,新闻怎样成为另一场秀》等书。2005年出版回忆录《玻璃城堡》,首次公开自己鲜为人知、与众不同的家庭背景和成长经历,凭借此书蜚声文坛。
现与丈夫约翰·泰勒(John Taylor)长住纽约城和长岛。
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Jeannette Walls's father always called her "Mountain Goat" and there's perhaps no more apt nickname for a girl who navigated a sheer and towering cliff of childhood both daily and stoically. In The Glass Castle, Walls chronicles her upbringing at the hands of eccentric, nomadic parents--Rose Mary, her frustrated-artist mother, and Rex, her brilliant, alcoholic father. To call the elder Walls's childrearing style laissez faire would be putting it mildly. As Rose Mary and Rex, motivated by whims and paranoia, uprooted their kids time and again, the youngsters (Walls, her brother and two sisters) were left largely to their own devices. But while Rex and Rose Mary firmly believed children learned best from their own mistakes, they themselves never seemed to do so, repeating the same disastrous patterns that eventually landed them on the streets. Walls describes in fascinating detail what it was to be a child in this family, from the embarrassing (wearing shoes held together with safety pins; using markers to color her skin in an effort to camouflage holes in her pants) to the horrific (being told, after a creepy uncle pleasured himself in close proximity, that sexual assault is a crime of perception; and being pimped by her father at a bar). Though Walls has well earned the right to complain, at no point does she play the victim. In fact, Walls' removed, nonjudgmental stance is initially startling, since many of the circumstances she describes could be categorized as abusive (and unquestioningly neglectful). But on the contrary, Walls respects her parents' knack for making hardships feel like adventures, and her love for them--despite their overwhelming self-absorption--resonates from cover to cover. --Brangien Davis --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
1. Jeannette Walls的这本回忆录《玻璃城堡》(The Glass Castle),其实容纳的是四个孩子艰难而颠沛的童年生活。大部分的时候,Lori、Jeannette、Brain和Maureen跟着他们的父母Rex Walls和Rose Mary睡在纸箱子里,睡在破旧的轿车里,睡在寒冷的地下室里,睡在没有阳光的廉价...
评分 评分 评分1. Jeannette Walls的这本回忆录《玻璃城堡》(The Glass Castle),其实容纳的是四个孩子艰难而颠沛的童年生活。大部分的时候,Lori、Jeannette、Brain和Maureen跟着他们的父母Rex Walls和Rose Mary睡在纸箱子里,睡在破旧的轿车里,睡在寒冷的地下室里,睡在没有阳光的廉价...
评分这本书陪伴我走过了高三最后的晦涩时光。我喜欢它正如我喜欢冬日里的阳光一般。它总是能够给我温暖。记得看这本书的时候是在冬天,每每想起总有一个玻璃城堡似的梦在等着我心里就无限温暖。那是一点透明的光照亮灰暗的时光,我希望自己也能像珍妮特一样,跳出牢笼,给自己建造...
4 What a life.
评分神奇的家庭,神奇的童年少年经历。作者能长成今天这样真令人佩服
评分I guess by far, this is the most captivating book that I have ever covered this year. It's not easy to live a childhood like that.
评分又一次让我感动落泪的一本书。有这样的父母是磨难更是恩宠。为人父母者无法也不愿去满足孩子的基本物质需求,这让我愤怒,但这也让姐弟三人早早学会了生存。此外,无论环境多么恶劣,父母给他们提供了一般人难以企及的精神给养。在食不果腹的日子里,他们姐弟三人靠着书籍获得了极大的慰藉。
评分4 What a life.
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