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Author: Westover, Tara

Brand: Manning

Edition: First Edition

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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 โ€ขย NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYย THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWย โ€ขย ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMAโ€™S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEARย โ€ข BILL GATESโ€™S HOLIDAY READING LISTย โ€ข FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLEโ€™S AWARD IN AUTOBIOGRAPHY โ€ข FINALIST FORย THEย NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLEโ€™S JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST BOOKย โ€ข FINALIST FOR THE PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARDย โ€ข FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES BOOK PRIZENAMED ONE OF PASTEโ€™S BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE โ€ข NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post โ€ข O: The Oprah Magazine โ€ข Time โ€ข NPR โ€ข Good Morning America โ€ข San Francisco Chronicle โ€ข The Guardian โ€ข The Economist โ€ข Financial Times โ€ข Newsday โ€ข New York Post โ€ข theSkimm โ€ข Refinery29 โ€ข Bloomberg โ€ข Self โ€ข Real Simple โ€ข Town & Country โ€ข Bustle โ€ข Paste โ€ข Publishers Weekly โ€ข Library Journal โ€ข LibraryReads โ€ข BookRiot โ€ข Pamela Paul, KQED โ€ข 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 Taraโ€™s 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 sheโ€™d traveled too far, if there was still a way home. โ€œBeautiful and propulsive . . . Despite the singularity of [Tara Westoverโ€™s] 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?โ€โ€”Vogue โ€œWestover 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€โ€”The New York Times Book Review Review โ€œWestover 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€ โ€”The New York Times Book Review โ€œWestover is a keen and honest guide to the difficulties of filial love, and to the enchantment of embracing a life of the mind.โ€ โ€”The New Yorker โ€œAn amazing story, and truly inspiring. Itโ€™s even better than youโ€™ve heard.โ€ โ€”Bill Gates โ€œHeart-wrenching . . . a beautiful testament to the power of education to open eyes and change lives.โ€ โ€”Amy Chua,ย Theย New York Times Book Review โ€œA coming-of-age memoir reminiscent of The Glass Castle.โ€ โ€”O: The Oprah Magazine โ€œWestoverโ€™s 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€ โ€”The Atlantic โ€œTara 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€ โ€”USA Today โ€œ[ Educated] left me speechless with wonder. [Westoverโ€™s] lyrical prose is mesmerizing, as is her personal story, growing up in a family in which girls were supposed to aspire only to become wivesโ€”and in which coveting an education was considered sinful. Her journey will surprise and inspire men and women alike.โ€ โ€”Refinery29 โ€œRiveting . . . 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€ โ€”The Economist โ€œA 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

Weight 1.28 kg

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