Author: Westover, Tara
Brand: Manning
Edition: First Edition
Features:
- Educated;Tara Westover;0399590501;9780399590504
Binding: Hardcover
Number Of Pages: 352
Publisher: Random House
Release Date: 20-02-2018
Details: Product Description #1ย NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL,ย ANDย BOSTON GLOBEย BESTSELLERย โขย NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYย THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWย โขย ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMAโS FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEARย โข BILL GATESโS HOLIDAY READING LISTย โข FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLEโS AWARD IN AUTOBIOGRAPHY โข FINALIST FORย THEย NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLEโS JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST BOOKย โข FINALIST FOR THE PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARDย โข FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES BOOK PRIZENAMED ONE OF PASTEโS BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE โข NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post โข O: The Oprah Magazine โข Time โข NPR โข Good Morning America โข San Francisco Chronicle โข The Guardian โข The Economist โข Financial Times โข Newsday โข New York Post โข theSkimm โข Refinery29 โข Bloomberg โข Self โข Real Simple โข Town & Country โข Bustle โข Paste โข Publishers Weekly โข Library Journal โข LibraryReads โข BookRiot โข Pamela Paul, KQED โข New York Public LibraryAn unforgettable memoir about a young girl who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Her family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when one of Taraโs older brothers became violent. When another brother got himself into college, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge University. Only then would she wonder if sheโd traveled too far, if there was still a way home. โBeautiful and propulsive . . . Despite the singularity of [Tara Westoverโs] childhood, the questions her book poses are universal: How much of ourselves should we give to those we love? And how much must we betray them to grow up?โโVogue โWestover has somehow managed not only to capture her unsurpassably exceptional upbringing, but to make her current situation seem not so exceptional at all, and resonant for many others.โโThe New York Times Book Review Review โWestover has somehow managed not only to capture her unsurpassably exceptional upbringing, but to make her current situation seem not so exceptional at all, and resonant for many others.โ โThe New York Times Book Review โWestover is a keen and honest guide to the difficulties of filial love, and to the enchantment of embracing a life of the mind.โ โThe New Yorker โAn amazing story, and truly inspiring. Itโs even better than youโve heard.โ โBill Gates โHeart-wrenching . . . a beautiful testament to the power of education to open eyes and change lives.โ โAmy Chua,ย Theย New York Times Book Review โA coming-of-age memoir reminiscent of The Glass Castle.โ โO: The Oprah Magazine โWestoverโs one-of-a-kind memoir is about the shaping of a mind. . . . In briskly paced prose, she evokes a childhood that completely defined her. Yet it was also, she gradually sensed, deforming her.โ โThe Atlantic โTara Westover is living proof that some people are flat-out, boots-always-laced-up indomitable. Her new book, Educated, is a heartbreaking, heartwarming, best-in-years memoir about striding beyond the limitations of birth and environment into a better life.ย . . .ย โ โ โ โ out of four.โ โUSA Today โ[ Educated] left me speechless with wonder. [Westoverโs] lyrical prose is mesmerizing, as is her personal story, growing up in a family in which girls were supposed to aspire only to become wivesโand in which coveting an education was considered sinful. Her journey will surprise and inspire men and women alike.โ โRefinery29 โRiveting . . . Westover brings readers deep into this world, a milieu usually hidden from outsiders. . . . Her story is remarkable, as each extreme anecdote described in tidy prose attests.โ โThe Economist โA subtle, nuanced study of how dysfunction of any kind ca
EAN: 9780399590504
Package Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.5 x 1.4 inches
Languages: English
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