The Resource The glass castle, Jeannette Walls
The glass castle, Jeannette Walls
Resource Information
The item The glass castle, Jeannette Walls represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City Libraries, City of Gold Coast.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
Resource Information
The item The glass castle, Jeannette Walls represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City Libraries, City of Gold Coast.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Label
- The glass castle
- Title
- The glass castle
- Statement of responsibility
- Jeannette Walls
- 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
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Walls, Jeannette
- Dewey number
- 920.72
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Walls, Jeannette
- Children of alcoholics
- Journalists
- Poor
- Homeless families
- Eccentrics and eccentricities
- Label
- The glass castle, Jeannette Walls
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- 341 pages
- Isbn
- 9780349010700
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- n
- Specific material designation
- regular print
- System control number
- (Sirsi) a345827
- Label
- The glass castle, Jeannette Walls
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- 341 pages
- Isbn
- 9780349010700
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- n
- Specific material designation
- regular print
- System control number
- (Sirsi) a345827
Subject
- Eccentrics and eccentricities -- United States -- Biography
- Homeless families -- United States -- Biography
- trueJournalists -- United States -- Biography
- Poor -- United States -- Biography
- Walls, Jeannette -- Childhood and youth
- Biographies
- Children of alcoholics -- United States -- Biography
Genre
Included in
- trueAlex Award: 2006
- trueBooklist Editors' Choice - Adult Nonfiction for Young Adults: 2005
- trueGarden State Teen Book Awards (New Jersey): Nonfiction (Grades 6-12)
- trueNew York Times Notable Books - Nonfiction: 2005
- trueVirginia Readers' Choice Award: High School (Grades 10-12)
- trueALA Notable Books - Nonfiction: 2006
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