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Jeannette WallsPublication Details
Book1st Scribner trade pbk. edScribner2006Availability
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Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. 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. TO INQUIRE ABOUT SCHEDULING JEANNETTE WALLS FOR SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS PLEASE CONTACT: Keppler Speakers Dustin L. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- Walls, Jeannette
- Children of alcoholics — United States — Biography
- Children of alcoholics — West Virginia — Welch — Biography
- Problem families — United States — Case studies
- Problem families — West Virginia — Welch — Case studies
- Poor — West Virginia — Welch — Biography
- Homeless persons — Family relationships — New York (State) — New York
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- In the tradition of Mary Karr’s "The Liars’ Club" and Rick Bragg’s "All Over But the Shouting," Jeannette Walls has written a stunning and life-affirming memoir about surviving a willfully impoverished, eccentric and severely misguided family. 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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- 074324754x
- 9780743247542
- 0743247531
- 9780743247535
- 074324754x
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