The Glass Castle
内容简介
Book Description
The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette's brilliant and charismatic father captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn't want the responsibility of raising a family.
The Walls children learned to take care of themselves. They fed, clothed, and protected one another, and eventually found their way to New York. Their parents followed them, choosing to be homeless even as their children prospered.
The Glass Castle is truely astonishing - a memoir permeated by the intense love of a peculiar but loyal family. Jeannette Walls has a story to tell, and tells it brilliantly, without an ounce of self-pity.
Book Dimension
length: (cm)17.5 width:(cm)10.3
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作者简介
珍妮特·沃尔斯（Jeannette Walls），美国著名记者。撰有《闲聊：流言世界的内幕》、《闲聊：流言如何变成新闻，新闻怎样成为另一场秀》等书。2005年出版回忆录《玻璃城堡》，首次公开自己鲜为人知、与众不同的家庭背景和成长经历，凭借此书蜚声文坛。
现与丈夫约翰·泰勒（John Taylor）长住纽约城和长岛。
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读书文摘
我们跟着举杯致敬。有那么一个时刻，我恍若听到父亲开怀的笑声。屋外，天色暗了。一阵风起，将玻璃窗震得咯咯作响，烛火突然闪烁了一下，好像正游走于混沌与秩序的边缘
而且当我第一次给他看我的伤疤时，他说这很有趣。他使用“有纹理”这个词汇，他说“光滑”令人乏味，但“有纹理”却很有趣，而且伤疤意味着我比任何曾经试图伤害我的东西都要强壮。
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