出版社: Scribner
副标题: A Memoir
出版年: 2005-3
页数: 304
定价: GBP 18.66
装帧: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780743247535
内容简介 · · · · · ·
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Jeannette Walls's father always called her "Mountain Goat" and there's perhaps no more apt nickname for a girl who navigated a sheer and towering cliff of childhood both daily and stoically. In The Glass Castle, Walls chronicles her upbringing at the hands of eccentric, nomadic parents--Rose Mary, her frustrated-artist mother, and Rex, her brilliant, alcoholic father...
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Jeannette Walls's father always called her "Mountain Goat" and there's perhaps no more apt nickname for a girl who navigated a sheer and towering cliff of childhood both daily and stoically. In The Glass Castle, Walls chronicles her upbringing at the hands of eccentric, nomadic parents--Rose Mary, her frustrated-artist mother, and Rex, her brilliant, alcoholic father. To call the elder Walls's childrearing style laissez faire would be putting it mildly. As Rose Mary and Rex, motivated by whims and paranoia, uprooted their kids time and again, the youngsters (Walls, her brother and two sisters) were left largely to their own devices. But while Rex and Rose Mary firmly believed children learned best from their own mistakes, they themselves never seemed to do so, repeating the same disastrous patterns that eventually landed them on the streets. Walls describes in fascinating detail what it was to be a child in this family, from the embarrassing (wearing shoes held together with safety pins; using markers to color her skin in an effort to camouflage holes in her pants) to the horrific (being told, after a creepy uncle pleasured himself in close proximity, that sexual assault is a crime of perception; and being pimped by her father at a bar). Though Walls has well earned the right to complain, at no point does she play the victim. In fact, Walls' removed, nonjudgmental stance is initially startling, since many of the circumstances she describes could be categorized as abusive (and unquestioningly neglectful). But on the contrary, Walls respects her parents' knack for making hardships feel like adventures, and her love for them--despite their overwhelming self-absorption--resonates from cover to cover. --Brangien Davis --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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珍妮特·沃尔斯 作者
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作者简介 · · · · · ·
珍妮特·沃尔斯(Jeannette Walls),美国著名记者。撰有《闲聊:流言世界的内幕》、《闲聊:流言如何变成新闻,新闻怎样成为另一场秀》等书。2005年出版回忆录《玻璃城堡》,首次公开自己鲜为人知、与众不同的家庭背景和成长经历,凭借此书蜚声文坛。
现与丈夫约翰·泰勒(John Taylor)长住纽约城和长岛。
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如果我离开,不是因为没有爱
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每一个人都有一个童年,并且以各自的方式与众不同。我猜测无论是什么样的家庭、什么样的环境长大的人,对童年都有一些阳光灿烂的回忆。生命是如此的坚韧,无论受到怎样的伤害,只要一息尚存就能延续下去;而生命又如此脆弱,所以我们筑起厚厚的壳。 《玻璃城堡》断断续续的看... (展开)
玻璃城堡:一 类 叫 做 【父母】 的 人。--最详细的分析、最感人的场景。
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我想说、我很感激Jeannette,感激这本书的存在。 --事实上、它让我正视了现在的人生,于是我想说、我十分感激自己的父母。 由于在美国上英语课,每次都要读一些经典的书,然后进行深层的分析、 我在很偶然的情况下看到豆瓣的评论们,并无恶意,只是觉得并不全面。 本人读了英文原著... (展开)
在动荡与安逸的边缘舞蹈
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Jeannette三岁时烤热狗小裙子着了火母亲却一点也不着慌,过后还振振有词的告诉她what doesn't kill makes you stronger。到了医院伤口包扎好却又招来父亲一通闹事,因为伤口也需要呼吸。护士们纷纷对小家伙表示同情,追问她的父母是否有虐待倾向。 可是Jeannette的生活又那么... (展开)

把痛苦写在另一本书里
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书看到一半,我发了个朋友圈说这是我目前最喜欢的一本书。有朋友留言问能不能说说为什么最喜欢,我一时也答不出来。后来想,因为这就是一本完美的书啊。 作者三岁的时候自己煮热狗吃,结果烫伤住院,爸爸为了逃脱医疗费,载着一家人一脚油门从美东逃到了美西。在路上爸爸说他要... (展开)
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0 有用 鱼晓贱 2011-05-18 19:41:39
It would be hell when you had such a childish sugar-addicted mother and alcoholic old man.
0 有用 二氯甲烷 2012-08-31 00:00:47
I guess by far, this is the most captivating book that I have ever covered this year. It's not easy to live a childhood like that.
0 有用 SWX 2024-03-10 15:08:19 北京
同类书的几本书中写得最动人的,出身贫穷的小姑娘,面对着酗酒的暴力的父亲,一个如同生活在梦中的母亲。文笔克制,优美,细腻,动人。虽然和同类的著作一样,因为在非常个人化的回忆录,给不出事物的全景,很多细节拼接不起来。
7 有用 Jacintta H 2019-01-01 02:17:07
I loved this book more than I had expected. Other people’s stories make you realize how insignificant your own troubles are.
0 有用 五月更生 2019-12-03 14:38:20
在听这本书期间,我无数次被 Walls 夫妇逃避现实、逃避责任的做法震惊甚至激怒,但最终读完我印象最深的却是类似“玻璃教堂”一样,那些浪漫的、在微小处闪闪发亮的片段。Jeannette 书写的是她个人的记忆,所有的叙述都浸在爱里,危险成了历险,连批判都只能是 afterthought。其实并没有那么多故事担得起一句「现实比小说更离奇」,但这本书当之无愧。