Educated -  - 9780099511021

Disponible en la librería en la planta primera (Lecturas en Ingles)
National Book Critics Circle finalist 2018
One of the 10 New York Times Best Books 2018.
A Publisher Weekly Best Book 2018
1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - 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 Book Club Pick for Now Read This, from PBS NewsHour and The New York Times
'A coming-of-age memoir reminiscent of The Glass Castle.'-O: The Oprah Magazine
'Tara Westover is living proof that some people are flat-out, boots-always-laced-up indomitable.'-USA Today
'The extremity of Westovers upbringing emerges gradually through her telling, which only makes the telling more alluring and harrowing.'-The New York Times Book Review
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 metal in her fathers junkyard.
Her father distrusted the medical establishment, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse. Gashes and concussions, even burns from explosions, were all treated at home with herbalism. 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 an older brother became violent.
When another brother got himself into college and came back with new...
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EAN: 9780099511021
Editado por: Arrow Books
Materia: Lecturas en inglés
Idioma: Inglés
Publicado el: 13 Marzo 2023
Nº Edición: 1
Nº páginas: 472
Encuadernación: Rústica
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