Educated - Brossura

Westover, Tara

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ISBN 10: 1443452483 ISBN 13: 9781443452489

Casa editrice: HarperCollins Publishers, 2018

Riassunto

For readers of The Glass Castle and Wild, a stunning new memoir about family, loss and the struggle for a better future

#1 International Bestseller

Tara Westover was seventeen when she first set foot in a classroom. Instead of traditional lessons, she grew up learning how to stew herbs into medicine, scavenging in the family scrap yard and helping her family prepare for the apocalypse. She had no birth certificate and no medical records and had never been enrolled in school.

Westover’s mother proved a marvel at concocting folk remedies for many ailments. As Tara developed her own coping mechanisms, little by little, she started to realize that what her family was offering didn’t have to be her only education. Her first day of university was her first day in school—ever—and she would eventually win an esteemed fellowship from Cambridge and graduate with a PhD in intellectual history and political thought.

 

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Recensione:

“This remarkable story of triumphing over a survivalist upbringing is fit to stand alongside the great modern memoirs . . . Powerful . . . a compelling and ultimately joyous account of self-determination.” (Mail on Sunday)

“Tara Westover is living proof that some people are flat-out, boots-always-laced-up indomitable . . . a heartbreaking, heartwarming, best-in-years memoir.” (USA Today (four stars))

“Memoirs of difficult childhoods have a high bar to cross these days, but Westover’s struggle to make sense of the world and of her upbringing sails right over.” (Time)

“Astounding . . . Westover examines her childhood with unsparing clarity, and, more startlingly, with curiosity and love, even for those who have seriously failed or wronged her.” (New Yorker)

“Extraordinary.” (The Globe and Mail)

“A powerful story of triumph and perseverance.” (CBC Books)

“Incredible . . . a powerful book . . . beautiful.” (Ellen DeGeneres)

“The extremity of Westover’s upbringing emerges gradually through her telling, which only makes the telling more alluring and harrowing.” (The New York Times)

“Jaw dropping.” (Daily Mail (UK))

“Fascinating . . . this book is a testament to willpower and freedom in knowledge.” (Canadian Living)

L'autore:

TARA WESTOVER was born in rural Idaho in 1986. She received a BA in history from Brigham Young University in 2008 and was subsequently awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. She earned an MPhil in intellectual history and political thought from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 2009, and in 2010 she was a visiting fellow at Harvard University. She returned to Cambridge, where she received a PhD in history in 2014. She lives in England.

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• Editore: HarperCollins Publishers
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1443452483
• ISBN 13: 9781443452489
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 352