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...
评分在阅读本书的大多数时间里,我的心情是不快的,其间还有不少的愤怒。这些情绪的来源就是书中的爸爸和妈妈,沃尔斯家四个孩子的监护人。我不能否认他们身上不乏闪光之处,比如对于自由生活的向往,比如教会孩子如何勇敢地面对困难。但是有一句话我不得不说,他们都太自私了,是...
评分 评分不用怀疑这本书的可读性。既有趣又真实,让人想要一鼓作气读到结尾。 回忆并不轻松,特别是沉重的往事。作者竭力忠实的把记忆变成铅字,试图讲述真实的成长故事,带有真情实感的气血,又不使人格评判过于醒目。 我始终相信,不是所有人都有权为人父母。不负责任、没有...
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。
评分这本书读到后半部分才开始觉得有趣,作者开始出现强烈的自我意识,并且具有非常独立的人格之后,试图去改变自己的父母,让生活变得更好,但是未果,失败之后,她没有灰心丧气,提出了更远大的目标,要去纽约。作者并没有空想,而是通过各种渠道赚钱,了解纽约的大学,和自己的兄妹交流等等来不断为接近自己的目标做准备,而且她的选择几乎都是对的(我认为来自于作者独立人格),最终她实现了梦想,改变了命运。能够在welch这样的环境以及她父母这样的原生家庭,作者能够健康的成长(主要指心理),并且实现自己的梦想,找到理想的工作和爱人,真是厉害。
评分真实的故事总会更动人
评分真实的故事总会更动人
评分"當大人像小孩的時候,小孩只得迅速長大。"____《圓舞》 亦舒
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