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The Glass Castle

Autor Jeannette Walls Spus de Jeannette Walls
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Descoperim aici o perspectivă neașteptată asupra rezilienței, scrisă de o autoare care, înainte de a deveni o voce celebră a literaturii contemporane, și-a construit o carieră solidă în jurnalism la New York, fiind o prezență constantă pe MSNBC.com. În The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls abandonează masca profesională pentru a expune o copilărie marcată de un nomadism extrem și de o sărăcie lucie, orchestrată de părinți a căror inteligență era dublată de o incapacitate cronică de a se conforma normelor sociale. Notăm cu interes modul în care Walls refuză victimizarea; deși descrie episoade de o duritate extremă în orașele miniere din West Virginia, ea menține un ton de o generozitate rară față de figura carismatică, dar distructivă, a tatălui său. Pe linia practică a volumului Destroy This House de Amanda Uhle, dar cu focus pe mecanismele de supraviețuire psihologică și pe transformarea traumei în combustibil pentru ambiție, această carte oferă un studiu de caz despre cum structura unei familii disfuncționale poate, paradoxal, să forjeze un spirit de neînvins. Spre deosebire de Half Broke Horses, unde Walls explorează rădăcinile familiei prin prisma bunicii sale, aici analiza este directă și viscerală, concentrată pe propria evadare din „castelul de sticlă” al promisiunilor neonorate. Ritmul este alert, specific unui jurnalist care știe să extragă esențialul din haos, oferind o lecție despre determinarea de a-ți defini succesul în proprii termeni.

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ISBN-13: 9781508239741
ISBN-10: 1508239746
Dimensiuni: 130 x 150 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg

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Despre autor

Jeannette Walls, născută în 1960, este o jurnalistă și scriitoare americană de succes, cunoscută inițial pentru rubrica sa de profiluri mondene de pe MSNBC.com. Absolventă a Barnard College, Walls a surprins lumea literară în 2005 cu publicarea memoriilor sale, The Glass Castle, care a devenit un fenomen editorial, rămânând pe lista de bestselleruri New York Times timp de peste opt ani. Experiența sa în jurnalism se reflectă în stilul precis și onest cu care își abordează trecutul tumultuos. Autoarea a extins ulterior universul familiei sale în volume precum Half Broke Horses și The Silver Star, stabilindu-se ca o voce autoritară în literatura biografică americană.


Descriere scurtă

MORE THAN EIGHT YEARS ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIST

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.


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Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic, brilliant man who, when sober, captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and above all, how to embrace life fearlessly. Rose Mary, who painted and wrote and couldn't stand the responsibility of providing for her family, called herself an "excitement addict." Cooking a meal that would be consumed in fifteen minutes had no appeal when she could make a painting that might last forever.

 

Later, when the money ran out, or the romance of the wandering life faded, the Walls retreated to the dismal West Virginia mining town--and the family--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.

What is so astonishing about Jeannette Walls is not just that she had the guts and tenacity and intelligence to get out, but that she describes her parents with such deep affection and generosity. Hers is a story of triumph against all odds, but also a tender, moving tale of unconditional love in a family that despite its profound flaws gave her the fiery determination to carve out a successful life on her own terms.

For two decades, Jeannette Walls hid her roots. Now she tells her own story. A regular contributor to MSNBC.com, she lives in New York and Long Island and is married to the writer John Taylor


Recenzii

Tragic and comic at the same time... an outrageous story, one that will break your heart
A terrific story, grippingly told
Like J.D. Salinger or Hemingway before her, Jeannette Walls has the talent of knowing exactly how to let a story tell itself
'I read The Glass Castle straight through in an evening, wearing an expression of slack-jawed amazement. Jeannette Walls has managed to balance her account with great precision; as she and her siblings did, we must both love and hate her parents
There isn't a shred of self-pity in this deeply compassionate book
Wall's journalistic bare-bones style makes for a chilling, wrenching, incredible testimony of childhood neglect
Affection, shame and guilt run side by side in this unforgettable memoir of a childhood spent ''on the skedaddle''
Funny and brilliantly written through a child's eyes, recreating a unique family life
Walls has joined the company of writers such as Mary Karr and Frank McCourt who have been able to transform their sad memories into fine art
Walls has a God-given knack for spinning a yarn, and The Glass Castle is nothing short of spectacular
Extraordinary
Each memory is more incredible than the last... That Walls recounts them so well and in such detail is our good fortune
Some people are born storytellers. Some lives are worth telling. The best memoirs happen when these two conditions converge. In The Glass Castle, they have
The Glass Castle is the kind of story that keeps you awake long after the rest of the house has fallen asleep
Utterly engaging and teeming with incident. This is a life so vividly rendered that the reader feels present at every moment
Walls has carved a story with precision and grace out of one of the most chaotic, heart-breaking childhoods... This deeply affecting memoir is a triumph in every possible way, and it does what all good books should: it affirms our faith in the human spirit