The Glass Castle The New York Times Bestseller - Two Million Copies Sold

<p><b>THE <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER - TWO MILLION COPIES SOLD</b><br><br><b>'Tragic and comic at the same time... an outrageous story, one that will break your heart' </b><i>Sunday Independent</i><br><br><b>'A terrific story, grippingly told' </b><i>Sunday Times</i><br><br><b>'I read<i> The Glass Castle</i> straight through in an evening, wearing an expression of slack-jawed amazement'</b> <i>Spectator</i><br><br>While Jeannette Walls was living on Park Avenue, covering the Academy Awards and attending black-tie parties at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, her parents were squatting in an abandoned building on the Lower East Side. <br><br>Rex Walls, her father, was an ingenious adventurer and a hopeless alcoholic. Her mother was an artist who abhorred domestic routine and the chores of motherhood: 'Why should I cook a meal that will be gone in an hour when I can do a painting that will last forever?' Funny sad, quirky and loving, <i>The Glass Castle</i> is an almost incredible story of a nomadic, impoverished childhood. <br><br><b>NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING BRIE LARSON, WOODY HARRELSON AND NAOMI WATTS</b></p>