The glass castle

Resource Information

The work The glass castle represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City Libraries, City of Gold Coast. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The glass castle

Statement of responsibility

Jeannette Walls

Creator

• trueWalls, Jeannette

Author

• trueWalls, Jeannette

Subject

• trueEccentrics and eccentricities -- United States -- Biography
• Homeless families -- United States -- Biography
• trueJournalists -- United States -- Biography
• Poor -- United States -- Biography
• Walls, Jeannette -- Childhood and youth
• Biographies
• trueChildren of alcoholics -- United States -- Biography

Genre

• trueBiography

Language

eng

Summary

This is a startling memoir of a successful journalist's journey from the deserted and dusty mining towns of the American Southwest, to an antique filled apartment on Park Avenue. Jeanette Walls narrates her nomadic and adventurous childhood with her dreaming, 'brilliant' but alcoholic parents. At the age of seventeen she escapes on a Greyhound bus to New York with her older sister; her younger siblings follow later. After pursuing the education and civilisation her parents sought to escape, Jeanette eventually succeeds in her quest for the 'mundane, middle class existence' she had always craved. In her apartment, overlooked by 'a portrait of someone else's ancestor' she recounts poignant remembered images of star watching with her father, juxtaposed with recollections of irregular meals, accidents and police-car chases and reveals her complex feelings of shame, guilt, pity and pride toward her parents

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

StEdNL

Dewey number

920.72

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction