The second child of a scholarly, alcoholic father and an eccentric artist mother discusses her family's nomadic upbringing from the Arizona desert, to Las Vegas, to an Appalachian mining town, during which her siblings and she fended for themselves while their parents outmaneuvered bill collectors a[...]

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[...]

The Silver Star, Jeannette Walls has written a heartbreaking and redemptive novel about an intrepid girl who challenges the injustice of the adult world a triumph of imagination and storytelling.It is 1970 in a small town in California. Bean Holladay is twelve and her sister, Liz, is fifteen when th[...]

A stunning, heartbreaking novel about an intrepid girl who challenges the injustice of the adult world - a triumph of imagination and storytelling[...]

From one of the bestselling memoirists of all time, a stunning and 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 is fifteen when their artistic mother Cha[...]

From the author of the two-million copy US bestseller, The Glass Castle, comes a debut novel inspired by the extraordinary life of her grandmother[...]

Et familieportrett utenom det vanlige - en selvbiografisk roman. Walls skriver om sin oppvekst i hendene på eksentriske, nomadiske foreldre. Faren Rex er alkoholiker og moren, Rose Mary, er kunstner og lettere gal. Hun prioriterer maling og litteratur fremfor morskap: "Hvorfor bruke en ettermiddag [...]

Lily Casey Smith. Uredd, handlekraftig og beintøff . På én og samme dag redder hun liv, temmer ville hester og slår kvegarbeidere i poker. Hun ble født i 1901 i en jordhytte i Texas. Som seksåring hjelper hun faren å temme hester. Som femtenåring fl ytter hun hjemmefra for å være lærer i [...]

Glæd jer til dette vidunder af en erindringsroman! En sensation verden over med mere end 2,5 mill. eks. solgt alene i USA, tre år på New York Times bestsellerliste og oversat til 22 sprog.

Jeannette Walls voksede op med sine forældre, hvis idealisme og stædige insisteren p�[...]

Jag satt i en taxi och funderade på om jag var för uppklädd för kvällen, när jag kastade en blick ut genom rutan och såg mamma rota i en sopcontainer. Det var flera månader sedan jag sett mamma, och när hon tittade upp greps jag av panik för att hon skulle se mig och ropa mitt namn och att[...]