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.
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...
评分上个月在纽约一家书店的禁书区里见到这本书赫然立在最前面。后面摆着一本《哈利波特》。再后面有《查特莱夫人的情人》等著名禁书。 当即很晕。The Glass Castie 也许。太离经叛道?可是《哈利波特》招谁惹谁了?! 问了店员才知道原来这个禁书区集中的是美国各州中小学目前和...
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...
4 What a life.
评分Smooth is boring, but textured is interesting
评分Smooth is boring, but textured is interesting
评分听后半段的时候很有感慨…
评分Audiobook#最近早班少,听书进展缓慢,昨天终于又听完一本《The glass castle》。这本自传绝对是现实版的《Shameless》,描述美国最底层人民的生活。作者爹是个酒鬼,妈罹患抑郁症。他们常年居无定所,父母无法稳定工作,甚至无法保证基本的食物放在餐桌上。作者从3岁开始就自己烧水做热狗。初中高中的时候需要到处翻捡垃圾筒找饭吃。御寒的衣服连扣子都没有。就在他们几个孩子努力攒钱想摆脱这个家去纽约的时候,她爸把孩子攒的钱全偷了,拿去喝酒。我曾经一度听不下去就是因为觉得内容太黑色。而现实能给你的就是一次次的打脸。不过最后孩子们都长大了,而且成为了和他们父母完全相反的人。本书难度3星,趣味性4星。#2016audiobook#累计听书时间57时25分。
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