Jeannette Walls is a writer and journalist.
Born in Phoenix, Arizona, she graduated with honors from Barnard College, the women's college affiliated with Columbia University. She published a bestselling memoir, The Glass Castle, in 2005. The book was adapted into a film and released to theaters in August, 2017.
Book Description
The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette's brilliant and charismatic father captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn't want the responsibility of raising a family.
The Walls children learned to take care of themselves. They fed, clothed, and protected one another, and eventually found their way to New York. Their parents followed them, choosing to be homeless even as their children prospered.
The Glass Castle is truely astonishing - a memoir permeated by the intense love of a peculiar but loyal family. Jeannette Walls has a story to tell, and tells it brilliantly, without an ounce of self-pity.
Book Dimension
length: (cm)17.5 width:(cm)10.3
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Beautifully written memoir, but so redundant for one to read and concentrate. A recommendation from one of my foreign classmates, but i don't like it so much as I expected before.
评分这个奇特的家庭,在这样的世俗看来有点不靠谱的父母的抚养下,每个孩子倒是把握住了自己的人生。有时候看到作者的描述,真的对这个父亲和母亲连连摇头,看到她描写上学没东西吃,只能去垃圾箱检别的小孩扔掉的食物。可是家庭永远是你割不掉的那部分,作者对父母的爱还是大过她对他们的无奈和经常的失望。
评分一本充沛到让人无法言语的书。不想说什么每一个人都应该读,只是发自内心地觉得 能读到这本书真是太好了。
评分从小我以为所有的爹妈都是负责任的成年人,长大后认识了各种形形色色的人,了解了他们的家庭背景,才知道有很多爹妈都根本没长大,越发感激我平凡但伟大的父母。To all those who survived semi-parents, respect.
评分Turbulence and Order.
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