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.
Ever since I covered the first several pages of this memoir, I decided I would write something for this book, not only for the miserable childhood Jeanette and her siblings came through, but also, for the toughness they displayed facing the unfairness that ...
评分 评分每一个有趣的人都有一段有趣的过去。但何为有趣呢?是不是必须有一些不堪为首、不忍重复的重型回忆?你知道,二十岁的时候我们会向往波澜起伏、奢望惊心动魄的人生,有的人过了三十岁便转而向往平静,波澜不惊、养尊处优被认可为一种成功的都市生活理想。可珍妮特用亲身经历告...
评分确实如书评所言,once you begin to read it, you won't stop it. 这几乎是我读过的最快的英文书,总是想知道后事如何。 这是作者的经历,可以从中窥见美国在上世纪六七十年代的社会形态。毫无疑问发达资本主义国家也是有穷人的。但穷到没有饭吃,也是出乎社会主义苗子的意料...
一个作者如果不能完全的隐藏在自己的作品后面,便应该完全真诚地站在读者面前。而《Glass Castle》就是一本完全坦白,不编造也不美化的书,一部比小说更情节曲折的回忆录。读完我觉得,上帝永远比任何故事的创造者更幽默,公平,讽刺,更有爱世人却也更多的试炼他们。而书就应该留给有经历的人来写。
评分每个个体的复杂背后,也许都有连篇累牍叙述不完的坎坷,有些人停下来喘口气继续说下去,有些人再也没勇气提起。作者的坦白和毫无掩饰如此强烈,常使观者不忍促读,因为太过简单美好,因为太过残酷露骨,因为太过真实。
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。
评分真实的故事总会更动人
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.
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