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Genre/Form: | Audiobooks (Playaway) Autobiography Biography Anecdotes Audiobooks Autobiographies Biographies Livres audio |
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Named Person: | Tara Westover; Tara Westover |
Material Type: | Biography, Audio book, etc., Sound recording |
Document Type: | Sound Recording, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Tara Westover; Julia Whelan; Playaway Digital Audio.; Findaway World, LLC. |
ISBN: | 9781987146127 1987146123 |
OCLC Number: | 1043472796 |
Notes: | Originally published by Books on Tape ℗2018 Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player. One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening. |
Performer(s): | Performed by Julia Whelan. |
Description: | 1 audio media player (720 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. |
Contents: | Choose the good -- The midwife -- Cream shoes -- Apache women -- Honest dirt -- Shield and buckler -- The Lord will provide -- Tiny harlots -- Perfect in his generations -- Shield of feathers -- Instinct -- Fish eyes -- Silence in the churches -- My feet no longer touch Earth -- No more a child -- Disloyal man, disobedient heaven -- To keep it holy -- Blood and feathers -- In the beginning -- Recitals of the fathers -- Skullcap -- What we whispered and what we screamed -- I'm from Idaho -- A knight, errant -- The work of sulphur -- Waiting for moving water -- If I were a woman -- Pygmalion -- Graduation -- The hand of the almighty -- Tragedy then farce -- A brawling woman in a wide house -- Sorcery of physics -- The substance of things -- West of the sun -- Four long arms, whirling -- Gambling for redemption -- Family -- Watching the buffalo -- Educated. |
Responsibility: | Tara Westover. |
Abstract:
Traces the author's experiences as a child born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, describing her participation in her family's paranoid stockpiling activities and her resolve to educate herself well enough to earn acceptance into a prestigious university and the unfamiliar world beyond.
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- Idaho.
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