The Glass Castle (Unabridged)
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4.4 • 484 Ratings
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
THE BELOVED #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER—FROM THE AUTHOR OF HANG THE MOON
The extraordinary, one-of-a-kind, “nothing short of spectacular” (Entertainment Weekly) memoir from one of the world’s most gifted storytellers.
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 truly astonishing—a memoir permeated by the intense love of a peculiar but loyal family.
The memoir was also made into a major motion picture from Lionsgate in 2017 starring Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, and Naomi Watts.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Jeannette Walls’ coming-of-age memoir is both a dreamy exploration of childhood wonder and a character-driven tale of parental dysfunction. Walls’ concise tone makes the portrayal of her family especially vibrant and raw: her alcoholic father is a magical and destructive presence, while her free-spirited mother has no gift for domestic responsibility. As Walls matures, her parents’ idiosyncrasies lose their romanticism—she weaves together tales of homelessness, neglect, starry-eyed adventure, and familial atonement, seamlessly shifting between childhood innocence and adult frustration. The Glass Castle is as spellbinding as it is harrowing.
Customer Reviews
It’s good, but the chapter labeling on the audiobook itself is weird
Where is reads Chapter 1 and 2 and so on, it isn’t synced between the book and the audiobook. It’ll say “Chapter 1” for 20 minutes but I’m already in the middle of chapter 2. This can mess up my reading and get me lost if I were to find where I left off.
Couldn’t stop listening
Want on a rollercoaster ride of emotions but nonetheless could not put it down.
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Very very interesting book!!