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Educated
de Tara Westover
- Usado
- Tapa blanda
- Estado
- Very Good Condition
- ISBN 10
- 0099511029
- ISBN 13
- 9780099511021
- Librería
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Bowral, New South Wales, Australia
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Winidmill Books, Australia, 2018. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Tara Westover grew up preparing for the end of the world. She was never put in school, never taken to the doctor. She did not even have a birth certificate until she was nine years old. At sixteen, to escape her father's radicalism and a violent older brother, Tara left home. What followed was a struggle for self-invention, a journey that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers: the perspective to see one's life through new eyes, and the will to change it. 384 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Autobiography::Memoir; Biography & Autobiography; ISBN/EAN: 9780099511021. Inventory No: 268892.. 9780099511021
Sinopsis
“Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her “head-for-the-hills bag.” In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father’s junkyard. The 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. As a way out, Tara began to educate herself, learning enough mathematics and grammar to be admitted to Brigham Young University. Her quest for knowledge would transform her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if she’d traveled too far, if there was still a way home. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, Tara Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education offers: the perspective to see one’s life through new eyes, and the will to change it” (from publisher).
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El Feb 24 2019, un lector dijo:
`An amazing story, and truly inspiring. The kind of book everyone will enjoy. IT'S EVEN BETTER THAN YOU'VE HEARD.'
Tara Westover and her family grew up preparing for the End of Days but, according to the government, she didn't exist. She hadn't been registered for a birth certificate. She had no school records because she'd never set foot in a classroom, and no medical records because her father didn't believe in hospitals. As she grew older, her father became more radical and her brother more violent. At sixteen, Tara knew she had to leave home. In doing so she discovered both the transformative power of education, and the price she had to pay for it.
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Detalles
- Librería
- leura books
(AU)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 268892
- Título
- Educated
- Autor
- Tara Westover
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Softcover
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good Condition
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 0099511029
- ISBN 13
- 9780099511021
- Editorial
- Winidmill Books
- Lugar de publicación
- Australia
- Fecha de publicación
- 2018
- Palabras clave
- BZDB43 Autobiography::Memoir; Biography & Autobiography; Unbranded EAN: 9780099511021 Tara Westover Educated
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Autobiography / Memoir;
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Bowral, New South Wales
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