Biography & Memoir· United States
The Glass Castle
by Jeannette WallsAggregate Editorial Score45/100
Goodreads Choice Award
Published 2005347 pagesEnglish
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The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is a landmark work of biography & memoir, first published in 2005. Walls recounts her wildly unconventional childhood—moving constantly across the American West and South with her brilliant, alcoholic father and eccentric mother—with remarkable clarity and without self-pity. One of the most remarkable memoirs of the twenty-first century. Themes of childhood, poverty, family run through the work. The book has received recognition from Goodreads Choice Award 2005.
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Goodreads Choice Award
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