TY  - BOOK
AU  - Walls, Jeannette.
TI  - The glass castle
SN  - 9781844081820
U1  - 920 WAL 
PY  - 2008///, c2005
CY  - London
PB  - Virago
KW  - Walls, Jeannette.
KW  - Walls, Jeannette
KW  - Adult children of alcoholics
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Rural poor
KW  - Women journalists
KW  - Children of alcoholics
KW  - Child abuse
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - lcgft
N2  - 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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