作者：TaraWestover
出版社：RandomHouse
副标题：AMemoir
出版年：2018-2-20
页数：352
定价：USD28.00
装帧：Hardcover
ISBN：9780399590504
内容简介
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Educated is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty, and of the grief that comes from severing one’s closest ties. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story 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.
作者简介
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Tara Westover is an American author living in the UK. Born in Idaho to a father opposed to public education, she never attended school. She spent her days working in her father's junkyard or stewing herbs for her mother, a self-taught herbalist and midwife. She was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom, and after that first taste, she pursued learning for a decade. She graduated magna cum laude from Brigham Young University in 2008 and was subsequently awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. She earned an MPhil from Trinity College, Cambridge in 2009, and in 2010 was a visiting fellow at Harvard University. She returned to Cambridge, where she was awarded a PhD in history in 2014.
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这本书再次印证了那句话：教育改变命运。当然，什么样的教育将命运改变成怎样又是另外一回事了。
这个回忆录让我大气都不敢喘地在24小时内看完了。无法想象在现代的美国居然有这样的生活存在着。震惊，可真是好看。很难想象作者在写的时候是否找到内心的平静。
Westover家族应该都是天资优秀的，从Tara的父母亲白手起家的生意可见一斑，而且读了书的三兄妹都有很强的主动性和能力，前后纷纷获得PhD （果然学习是阶层流动的上上之选）。更吸引我的是Tara通过学习的过程不断的发现自己：第一部受到家庭暴力，虽然有气愤不甘，却也说不上想要什么。到第二部，当Tara有了历史、心理学的知识，她不仅听从脑子里的想法，还可以理性分析，与自己和解。当无法改变原生家庭，…
我能理解美国人喜欢看这种励志故事 但是故事本身和文笔实在让人看不下去 通篇的I&my 叙事流水账
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