Jeannette Walls

A Novel

Hang the Moon

Original publication and copyright date: 2005.

A Memoir

The Glass Castle

The author offers a novel based on the life of her grandmother, Lily Casey Smith, who learned to break horses in childhood, journeyed 500 miles on a pony as a teen to become a teacher, and ran a vast ranch in Arizona with her husband while raising two children, including Rosemary Smith Walls, portrayed in the author's acclaimed The Glass Castle. Includes reading-group guide. Reprint. A New York Times Best Book of the Year.

A True-Life Novel

Half Broke Horses

Schloss aus Glas

Castelul de sticlă

A stunning, heartbreaking novel about an intrepid girl who challenges the injustice of the adult world - a triumph of imagination and storytelling. It is 1970. 'Bean' Holladay is twelve and her sister Liz fifteen when their artistic mother Charlotte, a woman who 'flees every place she's ever lived at the first sign of trouble', takes off to 'find herself'. She leaves the girls enough money for food to last a month or two. But when Bean gets home from school one day and sees a police car outside the house, she and Liz board a bus from California to Virginia, where their widowed Uncle Tinsley lives in the decaying antebellum mansion that has been in the family for generations. An impetuous optimist, Bean discovers who her father was and learns many stories about why their mother left Virginia in the first place. Money is tight, so Liz and Bean start babysitting and doing office work for Jerry Madox, foreman of the mill in town, a big man who bullies workers, tenants and his wife. Bean adores her whip-smart older sister, inventor of word games, reader of Edgar Allan Poe, non-conformist. But when school starts in the autumn, it is Bean who easily adjusts and makes friends, and Liz who becomes increasingly withdrawn. And then something happens between Liz and Maddox... 'Tragic and comic at the same time... an outrageous story, one that will break your heart' Sunday Independent 'There isn't a shred of self-pity in this deeply compassionate book' Marie Claire ***Half Broke Horses (S&S, 2009) 'Has immense power and readibility... What it does with aplomb is to track the birth of a nation: the conjuring of modern America from a scorched, dusty wasteland' The Times

The Silver Star

Camdan Kale

Jeannette Walls tells the story about her childhood. She talks about living like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Retreating to the dismal West Virginia mining town--and the family-- her father, Rex Walls, had done everything he could to escape. He drank. He stole the grocery money and disappeared for days. As the dysfunction of the family escalated, Jeannette and her brother and sisters had to fend for themselves, supporting one another as they weathered their parents' betrayals and, finally, found the resources and will to leave home.

Love it or hate it, create it or repeat it, America is obsessed with gossip. Here is a fascinating look at five decades of dish: a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the personalities that control what we read and see; the unholy and unchanging trinity of celebrity, publicist and reporter that has stoked the American appetite for gossip from the salad days of silver-screen magazines to the instantaneous communication of the scoop-filled Internet. Insider Jeannette Walls delivers a tantalizing tell-all that features not only gossip itself, but its history, its movers and shakers (including quite a few tony Ivy Leaguers), high and low points, and the watershed events and personalities--like Elvis, Diana, Michael Jackson and O. J.--that altered it forever. Here is the famous formula for People, the astonishing magazine that began amid sneers and snipes but went on to become one of the publishing industry's greatest success stories. Here too is the incredible truth behind explosive material that didn't see the light of day. From the humble beginnings of the National Enquirer, aided by the avuncular beneficence of crime kingpin Joe Costello, to the lurid Hollywood trial of Confidential magazine, where the "libeled" stars were proved more guilty than not of the salacious episodes the publication revealed, Jeannette Walls expertly traces the formation and development of the hush-hush industry. She shows us that tabloid TV shows are nothing new: they were preceded in the Fifties by the wildly successful Night Beat, hosted by none other than Mike Wallace, who turned the show into a forum for sex and scandal with his relentless prying and probing into the lives of celebrated figures. Love it or hate it, create it or repeat it, America is obsessed with gossip. Here is a fascinating look at five decades of dish: a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the personalities that control what we read and see; the unholy and unchanging trinity of celebrity, publicist and reporter that has stoked the American appetite for gossip from the salad days of silver-screen magazines to the instantaneous communication of the scoop-filled Internet. Insider Jeannette Walls delivers a tantalizing tell-all that features not only gossip itself, but its history, its movers and shakers (including quite a few tony Ivy Leaguers), high and low points, and the watershed events and personalities---like Elvis, Diana, Michael Jackson and O. J.---that altered it forever. Here is the famous formula for People, the astonishing magazine that began amid sneers and snipes but went on to become one of the publishing industry's greatest success stories. Here too is the incredible truth behind explosive material that didn't see the light of day. From the humble beginnings of the National Enquirer, aided by the avuncular beneficence of crime kingpin Joe Costello, to the lurid Hollywood trial of Confidential magazine, where the "libeled" stars were proved more guilty than not of the salacious episodes the publication revealed, Jeannette Walls expertly traces the formation and development of the hush-hush industry. She shows us that tabloid TV shows are nothing new: they were preceded in the Fifties by the wildly successful Night Beat, hosted by none other than Mike Wallace, who turned the show into a forum for sex and scandal with his relentless prying and probing into the lives of celebrated figures.

The Inside Story on the World of Gossip

Dish:

The author recalls her life growing up in a dysfunctional family with an alcoholic father and distant mother and describes how she and her siblings had to fend for themselves until they finally found the resources and will to leave home.

Luciana Persice Nogueira

'Filha, a gente não tem dinheiro para o presente, mas escolhe uma estrela no céu e fica com ela pra toda a vida'. Todo mundo pode dar uma segunda chance à vida. Em suas memórias, a jornalista e escritora Jeannette Walls nos mostra, sem pieguices e respostas fáceis, que tudo na vida é mesmo relativo, que as adversidades podem ser vividas com leveza, somando aprendizado e grandeza à nossa biografia.

O castelo de vidro

Die Lebensgeschichte einer ungewöhnlichen Frau, die sich Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts in Arizona als Lehrerin, Rancherin, Flugzeugpilotin, aber auch als Pokerspielerin und Schnapsschmugglerin bewährt, aus in der Familie erzählten Geschichten aufgezeichnet von ihrer Enkelin.

Ein ungezähmtes Leben

Szklany zamek

Az Üvegvár

Året er 1970. Bean er tolv år, og søsteren Liz er femten. De er vant til å måtte klare seg selv, siden moren vanligvis fordufter med en gang vanskeligheter oppstår. Denne gangen har hun forlatt døtrene for å finne seg selv. Da en politibil en dag dukker opp utenfor huset, blir de to jentene så urolige at de setter seg på første og beste buss. De reiser hele veien til Virginia, hvor onkelen Tinsley bor på et stort, men forfallent gods. Dette er en historie om to jenter som til tross for motgang og urettferdighet lærer å sette pris på sin egen tilværelse. Jeannette Walls har tidligere gitt ut bøkene Krystallslottet og Ville hester.

en roman

Sølvstjernen

Die andere Seite des Himmels

El Castillo de Cristal es la historia conmovedora de una familia que ama y que también abandona, que es leal y al mismo tiempo decepciona. Su lectura no dejará indiferente a ningún lector que se atreva con ella. Algunas pocas veces en la vida nos encontramos con libros excepcionales. Libros que se nos van imponiendo lentamente, que nos envuelven con su magia y que se instalan en nuestro corazón para no irse más. Así es la historia que nos cuenta Jeannette Walls, una exitosa periodista que durante muchos años ocultó un gran secreto. El de su familia. Una familia al mismo tiempo profundamente disfuncional y tremendamente viva, vibrante. El padre, Rex, es un hombre carismático y entusiasta, que logra transmitir a sus hijos la pasión por vivir. Les enseña física, geología, les cuenta historias. Pero Rex es alcohólico, y cuando está borracho se convierte en una persona destructiva y poco de fiar. La madre es un espíritu libre, una pintora muy orgullosa de su arte que aborrece la idea de una vida convencional y que no está dispuesta a asumir la responsabilidad de criar a sus cuatro hijos. La familia Walls es una familia errante. Viven aquí y allá y sobreviven como pueden. Los niños aprenden a cuidar de sí mismos, se protegen unos a otros, y finalmente consiguen salir del círculo infernal en que se convierte la familia para marcharse a Nueva York. En el camino quedan noches donde duermen al aire libre en el desierto, pueblos donde acuden por una semana a la escuela, vecinos que los ayudan y abusos de todo tipo. Una historia transformadora sobre la locura, la pobreza y el amor. Uno de esos libros después de cuya lectura uno no puede permanecer igual, sino que sale cambiado para siempre. Reseñas: «Un libro excelente... Walls tiene verdadero talento para contar historias.» Publishers Weekly «Walls ha pasado a formar parte de ese excepcional grupo de escritores como Mary Karr y Frank McCourt (Las cenizas de Ángela), capaces de transformar sus memorias de una infancia terrible en excelente literatura.» People «Walls recibió el mejor regalo que se le puede hacer a una escritora: una familia disfuncional empaquetada con excentricidades. [...] Caballos salvajes es el cuento de otra sardónica pariente de espíritu libre: su abuela materna Lily Casey Smith». USA Today (Sobre Caballos salvajes)

El Castillo de Cristal

Замок из стекла

"Glasslottet er så sjov, at det gør ondt... "- Information Gennem to årtier skjulte Jeannette Walls sin baggrund og sine rødder, samtidig med at hun arbejdede som journalist i New York. Men nu lægger hun kortene på bordet og man sidder måbende og beriget tilbage. Glasslottet er en læseoplevelse langt ud over det sædvanlige!

Glasslottet

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.

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