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'Tragic and comic at the same time... an outrageous story, one that will break your heart' Sunday Independent
'A terrific story, grippingly told' Sunday Times
'I read The Glass Castle straight through in an evening, wearing an expression of slack-jawed amazement' Spectator
While Jeannette Walls was living on Park Avenue, covering the Academy Awards and attending black-tie parties at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, her parents were squatting in an abandoned building on the Lower East Side.
Rex Walls, her father, was an ingenious adventurer and a hopeless alcoholic. Her mother was an artist who abhorred domestic routine and the chores of motherhood: 'Why should I cook a meal that will be gone in an hour when I can do a painting that will last forever?' Funny sad, quirky and loving, The Glass Castle is an almost incredible story of a nomadic, impoverished childhood.
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Jeannette Walls es periodista y colabora habitualmente con el canal de noticias MSNBC. Está casada con el escritor John Taylor, con quien vive en Virginia, USA. El castillo de cristal fue un éxito impresionante de público y crítica no solo en Estados Unidos sino en más de veinte países donde se publicó. Recibió el premio Readers Price en 2005 y el American Library Association en 2006.