Walls, Jeannette. <br/><br/>
The glass castle :  a memoir / 
Jeannette Walls. 
 - 1st Scribner trade pbk. ed. 
 - New York :  Scribner,  2006. 
 - 288, [11] pages :  portraits ;  21 cm 
<br/><br/> Includes a preview of the author's book : Half broke horses. 
<br/><br/>I.A woman on the street -- II. The desert -- III. Welch -- IV. New York City -- V. Thanksgiving. 
<br/><br/> In the tradition of Mary Karr's "The Liars' Club" and Rick Bragg's "All Over But the Shouting," Jeannette Walls has written a stunning and life-affirming 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>074324754X 9780743247542 0743247531 9780743247535 0739458213 9780739458211 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Walls, Jeannette.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Children of alcoholics--United States--Biography.<br/>Children of alcoholics--West Virginia--Welch--Biography.<br/>Dysfunctional families--United States--Case studies.<br/>Dysfunctional families--West Virginia--Welch--Case studies.<br/>Poor--West Virginia--Welch--Biography.<br/>Homeless persons--Family relationships--New York (State)--New York.<br/>Alcoholics.<br/>Child of Impaired Parents.<br/>Family Relations.<br/>Homeless Persons.<br/>Poverty.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>West Virginia.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Autobiography.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HV5132  / .W35 2006 
<br/><br/><label>National Library of Medicine Call No.: </label>WS 105.5.F2  / W215 2006