Tara Westover

Audio-CD

Educated

A Memoir

Sprecher: Whelan, Julia

Beschreibung

A searing coming-of-age story by a brilliant young woman who began life as a Mormon survivalist and went on to get a PhD at Cambridge University.

Autor

Tara Westover is an American historian and memoirist. Her first book, Educated, debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and remained on the list, in hardcover, for more than two years. The book, a memoir of her upbringing in rural Idaho, was a finalist for a number of national awards, including the L.A. Times Book Prize, the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. To date it has been translated into more than 45 languages. The New York Times named Educated one of the 10 Best Books of 2018, and the American Booksellers Association voted Educated the Nonfiction Book of the Year. For her staggering impact, Time Magazine named Westover one of the 100 Most Influential People of 2019. Westover holds a PhD in intellectual history from Trinity College, Cambridge, and in 2019 she was the Rosenthal Writer in Residence at Harvard University. In 2023, she was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Biden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Random House
• Gesamtlaufzeit: 720 Min.
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780593105320
• Artikelnr.: 60020877

Rezensionen

A memoir to stand alongside classics by the likes of Jeanette Winterson and Lorna Sage . . . a compelling and ultimately joyous account of self-determination Sunday Times