Glass Castle 玻璃城堡 当当网5星级英文学习产品

This is a startling memoir of a successful journalist'sjourney from the deserted and dusty mining towns of the AmericanSouthwest, to an antique filled apartment on Park Avenue. JeanetteWalls narrates her nomadic and adventurous childhood with herdreaming, 'brilliant' but alcoholic parents. At the age ofseventeen she escapes on a Greyhound bus to New York with her oldersister; her younger siblings follow later. After pursuing theeducation and civilisation her parents sought to escape, Jeanetteeventually succeeds in her quest for the 'mundane, middle classexistence' she had always craved. In her apartment, overlooked by'a portrait of someone else's ancestor' she recounts poignantremembered images of star watching with her father, juxtaposed withrecollections of irregular meals, accidents and police-car chasesand reveals her complex feelings of shame, guilt, pity and pridetoward her parents.

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'Walls doesn't pull her punches. Walls's parents - just two ofthe unforgettable characters in this excellent, unusual book - werea matched pair of eccentrics. And raising four children didn'tconventionalise either of them. [Walls has] a fantasticstorytelling knack.' Publishers Weekly 'Just read the first pagesof THE GLASS CASTLE by Jeannette Walls, and I defy you not to goon. It's funny, and sad, and quirky, and loving. I was incrediblytouched by it.' -Dominick Dunne, author of The Way We Lived Then :Recollections of a Well-Known Name Dropper and Justice: Crimes,Trials, and Punishments * 'Like JD Salinger or Hemingway beforeher, Jeannette Walls has the talent of knowing exactly how to let astory tell itself, crafted without self-pity or analysis orjudgement' Independent on Sunday * 'A terrific story, grippinglytold' Sunday Times * 'Funny and brilliantly written' Evening Herald* 'There isn't a shred of self-pity in this deeply compassionatebook' Marie Claire