The Glass Castle

The New York Times Bestseller - Two Million Copies Sold

By: Jeannette Walls

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Paperback | 3 July 2006 | Edition Number 1

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352 Pages

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - TWO MILLION COPIES SOLD

''Tragic and comic at the same time... an outrageous story, one that will break your heart'' Sunday Independent

''A terrific story, grippingly told'' Sunday Times

''I read The Glass Castle straight through in an evening, wearing an expression of slack-jawed amazement'' Spectator

While Jeannette Walls was living on Park Avenue, covering the Academy Awards and attending black-tie parties at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, her parents were squatting in an abandoned building on the Lower East Side.

Rex Walls, her father, was an ingenious adventurer and a hopeless alcoholic. Her mother was an artist who abhorred domestic routine and the chores of motherhood: ''Why should I cook a meal that will be gone in an hour when I can do a painting that will last forever?'' Funny sad, quirky and loving, The Glass Castle is an almost incredible story of a nomadic, impoverished childhood.

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Industry Reviews

'Walls doesn't pull her punches. Walls's parents - just two of the unforgettable characters in this excellent, unusual book - were a matched pair of eccentrics. And raising four children didn't conventionalise either of them. [Walls has] a fantastic storytelling knack.' Publishers Weekly 'Just read the first pages of THE GLASS CASTLE by Jeannette Walls, and I defy you not to go on. It's funny, and sad, and quirky, and loving. I was incredibly touched 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 before her, Jeannette Walls has the talent of knowing exactly how to let a story tell itself, crafted without self-pity or analysis or judgement' Independent on Sunday * 'A terrific story, grippingly told' Sunday Times * 'Funny and brilliantly written' Evening Herald * 'There isn't a shred of self-pity in this deeply compassionate book' Marie Claire

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