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Educated: The Sunday Times and New York Times Bestselling Memoir
出版社： Random House U.K.
書林書號：
20243388
作者：
Westover, Tara
定價：
450
會員價：
$383
ISBN：
9780099511021
出版年份：
2018
裝訂：
平裝
總頁數：
400
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◎從垃圾場到劍橋歷史博士的逆轉人生“EDUCATED”

塔拉‧維斯奧佛(Tara Westover)出生於愛荷華山區一個偏激的摩門教家庭，直至9歲拿到身分證前她都是幽靈人口，她沒有就醫紀錄，只靠藥草治療，她甚至17歲才第一次上學。因為家庭的箝制和壓抑，讓她一度認為自己也將這樣度過一生，直到她逃家考上大學的哥哥鼓勵她自學，她才一步步倚靠自己的努力，考過美國同等學力測驗，進入知名的楊百翰大學，28歲時，她拿到英國劍橋歷史博士學位。由於塔拉的身世過於曲折離奇，這本自傳甫出版便震驚全美國，從她由宛如化外之地的原生家庭進入所謂的文明社會，不禁令人思考，何謂真正的教育？是要贏在起跑點，還是儘管你輸在起跑點輸了17年，還是能因為「教育」成功扭轉命運？

Number-one New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Boston Globe best seller

Named One of the Ten 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 

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)
Amazon Editors' #1 Pick for the Best Book of 2018: Tara Westover wasn’t your garden variety college student. When the Holocaust was mentioned in a history class, she didn’t know what it was (no, really). That’s because she didn’t see the inside of a classroom until the age of seventeen. Public education was one of the many things her religious fanatic father was dubious of, believing it a means for the government to brainwash its gullible citizens, and her mother wasn’t diligent on the homeschooling front. If it wasn’t for a brother who managed to extricate himself from their isolated—and often dangerous--world, Westover might still be in rural Idaho, trying to survive her survivalist upbringing. It’s a miraculous story she tells in her memoir Educated. For those of us who took our educations for granted, who occasionally fell asleep in large lecture halls (and inconveniently small ones), it’s hard to grasp the level of grit—not to mention intellect—required to pull off what Westover did. But eventually earning a PhD from Cambridge University may have been the easy part, at least compared to what she had to sacrifice to attain it. The courage it took to make that sacrifice was the truest indicator of how far she’d come, and how much she’d learned. Educated is an inspiring reminder that knowledge is, indeed, power. --Erin Kodicek, Amazon Book Review
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