Format:
Book
Title:
The glass castle : a memoir / Jeannette Walls.
Author:
Walls, Jeannette.
Call Number:
362.82092 Walls
Publisher, Date:
New York : Scribner, 2005.
Description:
288 p. ; 24 cm.
Summary:
Journalist Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary and their four children lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic, brilliant man who, when sober, captured his children's imagination, teaching them how to embrace life fearlessly. Rose Mary painted and wrote and couldn't stand the responsibility of providing for her family. When the money ran out, the Walls retreated to the dismal West Virginia mining town Rex had tried to escape.
Subjects:
Walls, Jeannette.
Children of alcoholics -- United States -- Biography.
Children of alcoholics -- West Virginia -- Welch -- Biography.
Dysfunctional families -- United States -- Case studies.
Dysfunctional families -- West Virginia -- Welch -- Case studies.
Poor -- West Virginia -- Welch -- Biography.
Homeless persons -- New York (State) -- New York -- Family relationships.
Adult core collection.
ISBN:
9780743247542 (trade)
0743247531
9781501171581 (trade pbk.)