Jeannette Walls
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Jeannette Walls was born in Phoenix, Arizona on April 21, 1960. She graduated from Barnard College and was a journalist in New York City for twenty years. Her books include a memoir entitled The Glass Castle and several novels including Half Broke Horses and The Silver Star. (Bowker Author mostra altro Biography) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: Larry D. Moore
Opere di Jeannette Walls
5 Books! 1) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time 2) I Capture the Castle 3) The Glass Castle 4) The Devil… (2001) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Opere correlate
Livros Condensados: O Filho do Caçador Furtivo | Cavalos Mal Domados | Onde Estás Agora? | Nove Lições (2010) — Autore — 3 copie
The Scarecrow / Half Broke Horses / Thirteen Hours / From Cradle to Grave — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1960-04-21
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA (birth)
- Luogo di nascita
- Phoenix, Arizona, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Welch, West Virginia, USA
New York, New York, USA
Northern Virginia, USA - Istruzione
- Barnard College
- Attività lavorative
- journalist
- Relazioni
- Taylor, John (husband)
- Organizzazioni
- New York
Esquire
USA Today
MSNBC - Breve biografia
- Jeannette Walls lives in Virginia and is married to the writer John Taylor. She is a regular contributor to MSNBC and has worked at several publications, including Esquire, USA Today, and New York.
Utenti
Discussioni
Half Broke Horses in Westerns by Women (Mag 2010)
Recensioni
The Glass Castle: A Memoir (book) di Jeannette Walls
I actually enjoyed this book, even though I rarely like road-trippy books or autobigraphies. It was interesting, heartfelt, and had more than enough action to keep my interest all the way through, except maybe at the end when the author sort of fast forwards through many years at a time. Worth reading, but be prepared for something a little sad/depressing-thought provoking.
The descriptions Walls uses of the Appalachian region ring true for the time period, but I didn't particularly enjoy the book. I found it depressing and hopeless in many ways. It got a bit unrealistic towards the end.
Author Jeannette Walls has a very distinct voice which comes through again in her novel, Hang the Moon. With copious research and (I’m guessing) a little personal knowledge about the goings on in the area (Walls hails from Virginia where the book is set), Hang the Moon is a tale of family, greed, and bootlegging in the 1920s.
Sent away by her stepmother to live with an impoverished aunt, young Sallie Kincaid works as a laundress in the hills of Claiborne County. Upon her stepmother’s death, the Duke, Sallie’s dad and czar of the county, brings Sallie back home. At age 17, Sallie is hired on by the Duke to fetch his tenant rents and work with the moonshiners. As the years pass, Sallie and her family encounter numerous ups and downs and within a few years, Sallie finds herself taking over the Duke’s position as head of the county, running whiskey, balancing feuds and family, and trying to find love in a world where men overlord women.
Jeannette Walls’ style of prose is simplistic to today’s norm: no swearing, no sex. There is inference of both, but her writing is clean and pure. Quite an enjoyable switch to the norm of the in-you-face of the majority of today’s writers.
Walls has a very good history of well-written books, and I’m happy to had Hang the Moon to my bookshelf alongside the fabulous Half Broke Horses, another by Ms. Walls.… (altro)
Sent away by her stepmother to live with an impoverished aunt, young Sallie Kincaid works as a laundress in the hills of Claiborne County. Upon her stepmother’s death, the Duke, Sallie’s dad and czar of the county, brings Sallie back home. At age 17, Sallie is hired on by the Duke to fetch his tenant rents and work with the moonshiners. As the years pass, Sallie and her family encounter numerous ups and downs and within a few years, Sallie finds herself taking over the Duke’s position as head of the county, running whiskey, balancing feuds and family, and trying to find love in a world where men overlord women.
Jeannette Walls’ style of prose is simplistic to today’s norm: no swearing, no sex. There is inference of both, but her writing is clean and pure. Quite an enjoyable switch to the norm of the in-you-face of the majority of today’s writers.
Walls has a very good history of well-written books, and I’m happy to had Hang the Moon to my bookshelf alongside the fabulous Half Broke Horses, another by Ms. Walls.… (altro)
Half Broke Horses is an easy-to-read, fun adventure of Lily Casey Smith and her family, Big Jim (husband), Rosemary, and Little Jim, from Lily's perspective as a ranchhand/manager and teacher in Arizona before WW2.
Half Broke Horses is a quick-paced rendition of some fun, funny, unfortunate, and sad tales that Lily and her family experience in the desert.
What I appreciate most about this is how the author, Lily Casey Smith's granddaughter, Jeannette Walls' lets Lily come through the pages in her voice, in her stories, and in her ways. There is no overt covering up, sugar-coating, or PC-ing the terminology or events. This was Lily's story, told in Lily's voice, in Lily's time. Something that we all need to keep in mind when reading books written from different eras - their version of what is proper is not necessarily ours, but doesn't make them necessarily wrong.
A very well-done book.… (altro)
Half Broke Horses is a quick-paced rendition of some fun, funny, unfortunate, and sad tales that Lily and her family experience in the desert.
What I appreciate most about this is how the author, Lily Casey Smith's granddaughter, Jeannette Walls' lets Lily come through the pages in her voice, in her stories, and in her ways. There is no overt covering up, sugar-coating, or PC-ing the terminology or events. This was Lily's story, told in Lily's voice, in Lily's time. Something that we all need to keep in mind when reading books written from different eras - their version of what is proper is not necessarily ours, but doesn't make them necessarily wrong.
A very well-done book.… (altro)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 8
- Opere correlate
- 7
- Utenti
- 27,926
- Popolarità
- #727
- Voto
- 4.1
- Recensioni
- 1,160
- ISBN
- 199
- Lingue
- 21
- Preferito da
- 33
