Descrizione:
Educated - Tara Westover - 2018
A Memoir
By: Tara Westover
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 02-20-18
Language: English
Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Religious
Publisher: Random House Audio
Format: mp3 64/48 stereo
Number one New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Boston Globe best seller
Named one of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review
One of President Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of the Year
Bill Gates’s Holiday Reading List
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s Award in Autobiography
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize for Best First Book
Finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award
Finalist for the Los Angeles Book Prize
Named one of Paste’s Best Memoirs of the Decade
Named one of the Best Books of the Year by: The Washington Post • O: The Oprah Magazine • Time • NPR • Good Morning America • San Francisco Chronicle • The Guardian • The Economist • Financial Times • Newsday • New York Post • theSkimm • Refinery29 • Bloomberg • Self • Real Simple • Town & Country • Bustle • Paste • Publishers Weekly • Library Journal • LibraryReads • BookRiot • Pamela Paul, KQED • New York Public Library
An 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 17 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 Tara’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 she’d traveled too far, if there was still a way home.
“Beautiful and propulsive.... Despite the singularity of [Tara Westover’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?” (Vogue)
“Westover 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.” (The New York Times Book Review)
©2018 Tara Westover (P)2018 Random House Audio
Critic Reviews
“A coming-of-age memoir reminiscent of The Glass Castle.” (O: The Oprah Magazine)
“Beautiful and propulsive... [Tara Westover’s] voice is so sui generis it feels in debt to no one.... And despite the singularity of her 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?” (Vogue)
“An amazing story, and truly inspiring. The kind of book everyone will enjoy. It’s even better than you’ve heard.” (Bill Gates)
“Heart-wrenching... a beautiful testament to the power of education to open eyes and change lives.” (Amy Chua, The New York Times Book Review)
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