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Walls, Jeannette.

The glass castle / Jeannette Walls. - London : Virago, 2008, c2005. - 341 pages ; 20 cm.

The author remembers the poverty, hunger, jokes, and bullying she and her siblings endured as children, and she looks back at her parents: her flighty, self-indulgent mother, a Pollyanna unwilling to assume the responsibilities of parenting, and her father, troubled, brilliant Rex, whose ability to turn his family's downward-spiraling circumstances into adventures allowed his children to excuse his imperfections until they grew old enough to understand what he had done to them--and to himself. His grand plans to build a home for the family never evolved: the hole for the foundation of the "The Glass Castle, " as the dream house was called, became the family garbage dump, and, of course, a metaphor for Rex Walls' life.

ISBN: 9781844081820 1844081826

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA619792 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 013392353 Uk

Subjects--Personal Names:
Walls, Jeannette.
Walls, Jeannette--Childhood and youth.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Adult children of alcoholics--United States--Biography.
Rural poor--United States--Biography.
Women journalists--United States--Biography.
Children of alcoholics--United States--Biography.
Child abuse--United States--Biography.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Autobiographies.

Dewey Class. No.: 920 WAL