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 Randwick City Library.This item is available to borrow from 3 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 Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 3 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
- Extent
- 341 pages
- Note
- First published in 2005 by Virago
- Isbn
- 9780349010700
- Label
- The glass castle
- Title
- The glass castle
- Statement of responsibility
- Jeannette Walls
- Subject
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- Homeless persons -- New York (State) | New York
- Rural poor -- United States -- Biography
- Walls, Jeannette
- Walls, Jeannette -- Childhood and youth
- Women journalists -- United States -- Biography
- Children of alcoholics -- United States -- Biography
- Dysfunctional families -- United States -- Case studies
- 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
- SALS
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Walls, Jeannette
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Walls, Jeannette
- Walls, Jeannette
- Dysfunctional families
- Homeless persons
- Children of alcoholics
- Women journalists
- Rural poor
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The glass castle, Jeannette Walls
- Note
- First published in 2005 by Virago
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000060747180
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Extent
- 341 pages
- Isbn
- 9780349010700
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)990844895
- Label
- The glass castle, Jeannette Walls
- Note
- First published in 2005 by Virago
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000060747180
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Extent
- 341 pages
- Isbn
- 9780349010700
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)990844895
Subject
- Homeless persons -- New York (State) | New York
- Rural poor -- United States -- Biography
- Walls, Jeannette
- Walls, Jeannette -- Childhood and youth
- Women journalists -- United States -- Biography
- Children of alcoholics -- United States -- Biography
- Dysfunctional families -- United States -- Case studies
Genre
Included in
- trueALA Notable Books - Nonfiction: 2006
- 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)
Library Locations
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Lionel Bowen Library and Community CentreBorrow it669-673 Anzac Parade, Marouba, NSW, 2035, AU-33.938111 151.237977
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Malabar Community LibraryBorrow it1203 Anzac Parade, Matraville, NSW, 2036, AU-33.962293 151.245961
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Margaret Martin LibraryBorrow itLevel 1, Royal Randwick Shopping Centre, Randwick, NSW, 2031, AU-33.9151421 151.2408898
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