The glass castle : a memoir / Jeannette Walls.
Record details
- ISBN: 074324754X
- ISBN: 9780743247542
- ISBN: 0743247531
- ISBN: 9780743247535
- ISBN: 0739458213
- ISBN: 9780739458211
- ISBN: 9781439156964
- ISBN: 1439156964
- Physical Description: 288, [11] pages : portraits ; 21 cm.
- Edition: First Scribner trade paperback edition.
- Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2006.
- Copyright: 2005
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Badges:
- Top Holds Over Last 5 Years: 4 / 5.0
Content descriptions
General Note: | Includes a preview of the author's book : Half broke horses. |
Formatted Contents Note: | I.A woman on the street -- II. The desert -- III. Welch -- IV. New York City -- V. Thanksgiving. |
Summary, etc.: | Walls' memoir about surviving a willfully impoverished, eccentric and severely misguided family. The child of an alcoholic father and an eccentric artist mother discusses her family's nomadic upbringing, during which she and her siblings fended for themselves while their parents outmaneuvered bill collectors and the authorities. |
Awards Note: | American Library Association - Alex Award winner, 2006. Elle Readers Prize winner, 2005. |
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Genre: | Autobiographies. |
Available copies
- 26 of 46 copies available at Bibliomation.
Holds
- 2 current holds with 46 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Beardsley & Memorial Library - Winsted | B WALLS (Text) | 33750000047069 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Beekley Community Library - New Hartford | 362.82 WALLS (Text) | 32544072996159 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Black Rock Branch - Bridgeport | B WALLS (Text) | 34000075501940 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
Bolton High School | B WAL (Text) | 34062127328284 | Biography | Available | - |
Booth & Dimock Library - Coventry | A BIO WALLS (Text) | 33260000461807 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
Brookfield Library | 921/WALLS (Text) | 34029139723182 | Adult Nonfiction | Checked out | 05/06/2024 |
Burroughs-Saden Main - Bridgeport | B W2154g (Text) | 34000076114768 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
C.H. Booth Library - Newtown | B WALLS (Text) | 34014132970493 | Recommended Reads | Checked out | 05/28/2024 |
C.H. Booth Library - Newtown | B WALLS (Text) | 34014132976938 | Recommended Reads | Available | - |
C.H. Booth Library - Newtown | B WALLS (Text) | 34014132977233 | Recommended Reads | Available | - |
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505 | 0 | . | ‡aI.A woman on the street -- II. The desert -- III. Welch -- IV. New York City -- V. Thanksgiving. |
586 | . | ‡aAmerican Library Association - Alex Award winner, 2006. | |
586 | . | ‡aElle Readers Prize winner, 2005. | |
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