The Glass Castle

內容簡介

 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 truely astonishing - a memoir permeated by the intense love of a peculiar but loyal family. Jeannette Walls has a story to tell, and tells it brilliantly, without an ounce of self-pity.

　　《玻璃城堡》是一部比虛構小說更離奇曲折的真實回憶錄。這是一個真實的故事，卻常常離奇得超乎想像，輕鬆幽默的語言背後有著許多深沉感人的亮點。一個擁有價值百萬美金的土地卻堅持流浪街頭的畫家母親，一個魅力超凡才華橫溢卻酗酒嗜賭的天才父親，四個聰明堅強的孩子，構成了沃爾斯一家。
　　父母的空想主義和特立獨行的生活態度既給全家帶來了災禍，也帶來了救贖。他們在美國西南部的礦鎮度過了純真快樂、充滿冒險而又滿懷希望的流浪生活，孩子們學會了如何勇敢地擁抱生活。
　　但是當經濟越發拮据、流浪的熱情逐漸減退時，孩子們只能互相照顧，並忍受著父母對他們不經意的傷害。他們努力地存錢，相繼離家去了紐約，開始了各自想要的生活。