| The Glass Castle: A Memoir Contributor(s): Walls, Jeannette (Author) |
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ISBN: 074324754X ISBN-13: 9780743247542 Publisher: Scribner Book Company OUR PRICE: $16.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2006 Annotation: In the tradition of Mary Karr's "The Liars' Club" and Rick Bragg's "All Over But the Shouting," Walls has written a stunning and life-affirming memoir about surviving a willfully impoverished, eccentric, and severely misguided family. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Editors, Journalists, Publishers - Family & Relationships - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Dewey: B |
| Lexile Measure: 1010 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" (0.60 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Topical - Family - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 105049 Reading Level: 5.9 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 12.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Now a major motion picture from Lionsgate starring Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, and Naomi Watts. MORE THAN SEVEN YEARS ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIST The perennially bestselling, extraordinary, one-of-a-kind, "nothing |
Contributor Bio(s): Walls, Jeannette: - Jeannette Walls graduated from Barnard College and was a journalist in New York. Her memoir, The Glass Castle, has been a New York Times bestseller for more than six years. She is also the author of the instant New York Times bestsellers The Silver Star and Half Broke Horses, which was named one of the ten best books of 2009 by the editors of The New York Times Book Review. Walls lives in rural Virginia with her husband, the writer John Taylor. |