珍妮特·沃尔斯(Jeannette Walls),美国著名记者。撰有《闲聊:流言世界的内幕》、《闲聊:流言如何变成新闻,新闻怎样成为另一场秀》等书。2005年出版回忆录《玻璃城堡》,首次公开自己鲜为人知、与众不同的家庭背景和成长经历,凭借此书蜚声文坛。
现与丈夫约翰·泰勒(John Taylor)长住纽约城和长岛。
发表于2024-05-02
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Ever since I covered the first several pages of this memoir, I decided I would write something for this book, not only for the miserable childhood Jeanette and her siblings came through, but also, for the toughness they displayed facing the unfairness that ...
评分 评分 评分每一个有趣的人都有一段有趣的过去。但何为有趣呢?是不是必须有一些不堪为首、不忍重复的重型回忆?你知道,二十岁的时候我们会向往波澜起伏、奢望惊心动魄的人生,有的人过了三十岁便转而向往平静,波澜不惊、养尊处优被认可为一种成功的都市生活理想。可珍妮特用亲身经历告...
评分确实如书评所言,once you begin to read it, you won't stop it. 这几乎是我读过的最快的英文书,总是想知道后事如何。 这是作者的经历,可以从中窥见美国在上世纪六七十年代的社会形态。毫无疑问发达资本主义国家也是有穷人的。但穷到没有饭吃,也是出乎社会主义苗子的意料...
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Jeannette Walls's father always called her "Mountain Goat" and there's perhaps no more apt nickname for a girl who navigated a sheer and towering cliff of childhood both daily and stoically. In The Glass Castle, Walls chronicles her upbringing at the hands of eccentric, nomadic parents--Rose Mary, her frustrated-artist mother, and Rex, her brilliant, alcoholic father. To call the elder Walls's childrearing style laissez faire would be putting it mildly. As Rose Mary and Rex, motivated by whims and paranoia, uprooted their kids time and again, the youngsters (Walls, her brother and two sisters) were left largely to their own devices. But while Rex and Rose Mary firmly believed children learned best from their own mistakes, they themselves never seemed to do so, repeating the same disastrous patterns that eventually landed them on the streets. Walls describes in fascinating detail what it was to be a child in this family, from the embarrassing (wearing shoes held together with safety pins; using markers to color her skin in an effort to camouflage holes in her pants) to the horrific (being told, after a creepy uncle pleasured himself in close proximity, that sexual assault is a crime of perception; and being pimped by her father at a bar). Though Walls has well earned the right to complain, at no point does she play the victim. In fact, Walls' removed, nonjudgmental stance is initially startling, since many of the circumstances she describes could be categorized as abusive (and unquestioningly neglectful). But on the contrary, Walls respects her parents' knack for making hardships feel like adventures, and her love for them--despite their overwhelming self-absorption--resonates from cover to cover. --Brangien Davis --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
神奇的家庭,神奇的童年少年经历。作者能长成今天这样真令人佩服
评分真实的故事总会更动人
评分听后半段的时候很有感慨…
评分还会再温习的书。波折困难又精彩的人生。我们无法按照我们的意愿重塑父母。我们身上比他们多的,是他们没有得到过的,但通过他们的认知和生活感悟而带给我们的。一本让人为之眼神矍铄,为之莞尔,为之焦虑,为之落泪,为之振奋...的好书。
评分在听这本书期间,我无数次被 Walls 夫妇逃避现实、逃避责任的做法震惊甚至激怒,但最终读完我印象最深的却是类似“玻璃教堂”一样,那些浪漫的、在微小处闪闪发亮的片段。Jeannette 书写的是她个人的记忆,所有的叙述都浸在爱里,危险成了历险,连批判都只能是 afterthought。其实并没有那么多故事担得起一句「现实比小说更离奇」,但这本书当之无愧。
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