Teo Vigil Leal Vigil Leal itibaren Verbūnai 81371, Litvanya
Once you pick up this book, I dare you to stop reading. It is at once heart-breaking and tender. Walls tells the story of her upbringing in a family of four children with an alcholic father and eccentric artist mother. The family roams all over the country from mining towns to deserts to New York City where Walls eventually puts herself through Barnard College while her parents are living homeless in the streets. This is a rich family portrait of psychological disfunction, poverty and frustration, but told through the sharp eye and compassionate heart of the determined protagonist.
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This was was really good and even though i read it at a young age..it was entertaining and inspiring.
This is a fictional account of a life in the gulags. The absence of chapters makes the book feel more like a day than if it had been separated by chapters, and it makes it difficult to set it down since you're constantly in a new section. It's very short and might provide a nice counterpoint to the Gulag Archipelago. I would also highly recommend taking a look at some of the poetry of Yevgeny Yevtushenko (just a few online). It's probably more uplifting than the Gulag Archipelago, from what I remember. It gives a sense of how a person needs to live to survive in those conditions.