Educated (Record no. 34164)

MARC details
ISBN
International Standard Book Number 9781786330512
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Call number 371.8092 WE ED
MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL AUTHOR
Authors Westover, Tara
TITLE STATEMENT
Title Educated
Statement of responsibility, etc. Tara Westover
PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication London :
Publisher Hutchinson,
Date c2018.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xi, 385 p. ;
Size 24 cm.
SUMMARY
Summary Tara Westover grew up preparing for the End of Days, watching for the sun to darken, for the moon to drip as if with blood. She spent her summers bottling peaches and her winters rotating emergency supplies, hoping that when the World of Men failed, her family would continue on, unaffected. 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 doctors or hospitals. According to the state and federal government, she didn't exist. As she grew older, her father became more radical, and her brother, more violent. At sixteen Tara decided to educate herself. Her struggle for knowledge would take her far from her Idaho mountains, over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if she'd travelled too far. If there was still a way home. EDUCATED is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty, and of the grief that comes with the severing of the closest of ties. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, Westover has crafted, from her singular experience, a universal coming-of-age story, one 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.
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Heading Survivalism
Geographic United States
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Heading Ex-cultists
Geographic United States
Form Biography
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
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Public note Location Map
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SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
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Holdings
Date last seen Full call number Barcode Price effective from Koha item type Public note Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Withdrawn status Permanent location Current location Shelving location Date acquired Source of acquisition
08/05/2018 371.8092 WE ED T0059858 08/05/2018 REGULAR May2018   Dewey Decimal Classification       University of Wollongong in Dubai University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection 20/05/2018 AMAUK