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...
评分玻璃城堡 《玻璃城堡》是美国著名记者珍妮特•沃尔斯撰写的于2005年出版的回忆录,首次公开了自己鲜为人知、与众不同的家庭背景和成长经历 每一个人都有一个童年,并且以各自的方式与众不同。该书讲述了沃尔斯真实的童年生活故事,很美好很刺激,却常常离奇得超乎想象,轻松...
评分成长中的丢弃与烙印 看过《玻璃城堡》后我向不同的人转述这个故事,开头无一例外是“世界上也有这样的父母……”,而结尾总要补充上一句“这是个真实的故事”。 我想这就是这部小说打动人的所在,因为它不可思议却又偏偏是真实的。故事以第一人称开始,笔墨均匀地铺洒...
犬儒主义的父母,子女该怎样生活?英语初学者很好的阅读材料。
评分"當大人像小孩的時候,小孩只得迅速長大。"____《圓舞》 亦舒
评分It would be hell when you had such a childish sugar-addicted mother and alcoholic old man.
评分连paper都写的很享受,可以说有点喜欢Mary,喜欢Jeannette,很喜欢Rex把星星当作礼物送给孩子们的那几页。
评分是一个探讨家庭教育、酒瘾治疗、原著和电影改编差异的原因的好案例...看的时候觉得人是很多面的,但这对放任型的parents真的很不负责任..
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