Jeannette Walls, Author . Scribner $24 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7432-4753-5
Freelance writer Walls doesn't pull her punches. She opens her memoir by describing looking out the window of her taxi, wondering if she's "overdressed for the evening" and spotting her mother on the sidewalk, "rooting through a...
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Jeannette Walls, Author . Scribner $25 (272p) ISBN 978-1-4165-8628-9
For the first 10 years of her life, Lily Casey Smith, the narrator of this “true-life novel” by her granddaughter, Walls, lived in a dirt dugout in west Texas. Walls, whose megaselling memoir, The Glass Castle
, recalled her own...
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Jeannette Walls, Author William Morrow & Company $25 (384p) ISBN 978-0-380-97821-2
Who wouldn't want to know who Peter Lawford called to ""clean"" Marilyn Monroe's apartment hours after her death? Or Eddie Fisher's blunt views about dating Jewish women? Or what deal Ted Kennedy made with the National Enquirer to suppress the more...
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Jeannette Walls. Scribner, $26 (288p) ISBN 978-1-4516-6150-7
Readers of Walls’s bestselling memoir The Glass Castle may find this new novel too familiar to be entirely satisfying. When 12-year-old Bean Holladay and her 15-year-old sister, Liz, are abandoned by their narcissistic, unstable mother, Charlotte,...
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Jeannette Walls. Scribner, $28 (368p) ISBN 978-1-5011-1729-9
Walls’s breathtaking latest (after The Silver Star) traces the trajectory of two feuding Virginia families and a woman who rises to the top of a bootlegging empire. For more than 50 years, bad blood has permeated relations between the bootlegging...
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