The Silver Star: A Novel - Brossura

“At heart Walls is a wonderful yarn-spinner...This is a page-turner, built for hammock or beach reading.” -- Karen Valby, Entertainment Weekly

“Walls is adept at steeping her characters in some intense, old-fashioned drama...The Silver Star is a lovely, moving novel with an appealing narrator in Bean.” -- Carmela Ciuraru, USA Today

“Walls writes with easy assurance about Liz and Bean, proving in fiction as she did in her memoir, The Glass Castle, that she knows children’s hearts—as well as the evil that can lurk in the hearts of grown-ups.”, Parade

“Walls writes with the paired-down incisiveness of a memoirist looking for the significance of every incident, but it’s the way she draws Bean, so strong even in the face of all the additional challenges that come with her age, gender, and innocence, that will make this book a hit with readers.” -- Nicholas Mancusi, The Daily Beast

Walls has written yet another gripping story of a courageous and sensible girl surviving the adults around her.” -- Holly Silva, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“Told with a balanced, yet whimsical, voice of insight and awareness...[The Silver Star] is set during the Nixon ‘70s and Vietname War, and the author adeptly evokes the tumultuous era in the narrative without letting it overwhelm the primary thread of Bean’s coming-of-age adventures.” -- S. Kirk Walsh, San Francisco Chronicle

“Absorbing...”, People

“A polished work of fiction...Engaging...Fans will find echoes of her coruscating family chronicle that first struck a chord with readers in 2005, but The Silver Star is the novel of a more confident, mature and calculating writer...[an] atmospheric bildungsroman of adolescent passage, changing times and bent but unbroken family bonds.” -- Jane Sumner, Dallas Morning News

“Great writing...An absorbing, unsentimental tale of childhood.” -- Chelsea Cain, The New York Times Book Review

“A great spirit comes through The Silver Star...Jeannette Walls knows how to make characters pop off the page (and tear your heart out in the process.)” -- Angela Mattano, Campus Circle Magazine

Jeannette Walls graduated from Barnard College and was a journalist in New York. Her memoir, The Glass Castle, has been a New York Times bestseller for more than six years. She is also the author of the instant New York Times bestsellers The Silver Star and Half Broke Horses, which was named one of the ten best books of 2009 by the editors of The New York Times Book Review. Walls lives in rural Virginia with her husband, the writer John Taylor.