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020			_a9781844081820 _qPaperback
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100			_aWalls, Jeannette. _916927
245	1	4	_aThe glass castle / _cJeannette Walls.
260			_aLondon : _bVirago, _c2008, c2005.
300			_a341 pages ; _c20 cm.
520	0		_aThe author remembers the poverty, hunger, jokes, and bullying she and her siblings endured as children, and she looks back at her parents: her flighty, self-indulgent mother, a Pollyanna unwilling to assume the responsibilities of parenting, and her father, troubled, brilliant Rex, whose ability to turn his family's downward-spiraling circumstances into adventures allowed his children to excuse his imperfections until they grew old enough to understand what he had done to them--and to himself. His grand plans to build a home for the family never evolved: the hole for the foundation of the "The Glass Castle, " as the dream house was called, became the family garbage dump, and, of course, a metaphor for Rex Walls' life.
600		0	_aWalls, Jeannette. _916927
600		0	_aWalls, Jeannette _xChildhood and youth. _937732
650		0	_aAdult children of alcoholics _zUnited States _vBiography. _937733
650		0	_aRural poor _zUnited States _vBiography. _937734
650		0	_aWomen journalists _zUnited States _vBiography. _922224
650		0	_aChildren of alcoholics _zUnited States _vBiography.
650		0	_aChild abuse _zUnited States _vBiography. _937735
655		0	_aAutobiographies. _2lcgft _921259
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948			_hHELD BY NZWMT - 12 OTHER HOLDINGS
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