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The glass castle / Jeannette Walls.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Virago, 2008, c2005.Description: 341 pages ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9781844081820
  • 1844081826
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 920 WAL
Subject: 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.
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Non-Fiction Non-Fiction Waimate Event Centre - Long term storage Non Fiction 920 WAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not For Loan Not for loan A00434825

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.

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