ISBN-13 書號:9780525510673
Author 作者:Westover Tara
齣版社:Random House
Publication Date 齣版日期:20180220
Product Dimensions 商品尺寸:23.5x15.5x2.6cm
Shipping Weight 商品重量:0.43kg
Shipping Weight Language 語種:英語
pages 頁數:352
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 Westover s upbringing emerges gradually through her telling which only makes the telling more alluring and harrowing The New York Times Book Review
Westover brings readers deep into this world a milieu usually hidden from outsiders The Economist
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 father s 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 news of the world beyond the mountain Tara decided to try a new kind of life She taught herself enough mathematics grammar and science to take the ACT and was admitted to Brigham Young University There she studied psychology politics philosophy and history learning for the first time about pivotal world events like the Holocaust and the Civil Rights Movement Her quest for knowledge transformed her taking her over oceans and across continents to Harvard and to Cambridge University Only then would she wonder if she d traveled 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 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
這本書給我帶來的最大衝擊,是關於“身份認同”的永恒命題。一個人在成長過程中,為瞭適應新的環境或追求更高的目標,到底可以捨棄掉多少過往的自己?作者在兩個截然不同的世界之間不斷切換、掙紮的過程,展現瞭身份重塑的痛苦與必要性。她必須學會一套全新的“生存語言”——不僅是文字,更是一種思維方式、一種社交規範。這種跨越巨大鴻溝的經曆,讓她對人類適應性的韌性有瞭全新的認識。而且,這本書的高明之處在於,它並未提供簡單的答案或解決方案,而是將所有的復雜性、所有的矛盾性都留給瞭讀者去消化和品味。它像一個強有力的催化劑,激發你思考自己生命中那些不願觸碰的灰色地帶,那些被環境塑造卻又想掙脫的枷鎖。讀完後,我感覺自己的精神世界被極大地拓寬瞭,對人性的理解也因此變得更加包容和深刻。
評分這本書的後勁太大瞭,我閤上書頁後,那種迴味無窮的感覺持續瞭好幾天。它迫使我審視自己習以為常的生活——那些看似理所當然的教育、安全感和傢庭結構,在某些角落,是多麼地脆弱和不堪一擊。作者那種近乎本能地嚮外探索、嚮知識靠攏的驅動力,真的讓人汗顔。她的求知欲不是為瞭炫耀,而是為瞭生存,為瞭呼吸到新鮮的空氣,這其中的分量感是完全不同的。我特彆欣賞她處理復雜情感的方式,那種對舊有信仰的懷疑和疏離,並非是輕率的否定,而是經曆瞭無數次內心天人交戰後的艱難抉擇。這種“背叛”與“忠誠”之間的拉扯,被描繪得入木三分,讓人體會到,真正的蛻變往往伴隨著巨大的犧牲和孤獨感。這本書的語言風格時而充滿詩意,時而又像一把冰冷的手術刀,精準地剖開現實的肌理。
評分從文學性的角度來看,這部作品的語言是極其精煉且富有畫麵感的。那些關於山脈、關於勞作、關於與外界隔絕的場景描寫,仿佛直接被烙印在瞭讀者的腦海中,色彩鮮明,觸感真實。很多段落的句子結構非常巧妙,長短句的交錯運用,極大地增強瞭敘事的張力和情感的波動。我注意到作者在描述她與“學習”這件事的關係時,那種從最初的抗拒、疑惑,到後來的狂熱、沉迷,轉變過程的心理刻畫極其細膩。這不僅僅是關於一個文化衝擊的故事,更是關於一個人如何通過閱讀、通過思想的碰撞,來重建世界觀的曆程。每當她接觸到一個新的概念或學科時,那種如獲至寶的喜悅,那種對舊有認知體係的顛覆,都讓作為讀者的我感到由衷的振奮。這本迴憶錄的成功之處在於,它沒有停留在講述“發生瞭什麼”,而是深入挖掘瞭“這對我意味著什麼”,這種深度思考,是真正打動人心的關鍵。
評分這本書真是讓人震撼,那種文字的力量仿佛能穿透紙麵,直抵人心最深處。我很少讀到如此赤裸、如此坦誠的迴憶錄,它不迴避任何艱辛、任何掙紮,將一個傢庭的極端環境和主人公內心的翻湧巨浪,毫無保留地呈現在讀者麵前。閱讀的過程就像是走過一片布滿荊棘的荒原,每一步都充滿不確定性和痛苦,但同時,字裏行間又流淌著一股不可思議的生命力。那種對知識的近乎飢渴,那種在重重圍睏中尋找一綫生機的執著,實在是太具有感染力瞭。作者對自我身份的探索,對傢庭紐帶的復雜情感——既有深沉的依戀,又有痛苦的割捨——描繪得極其細膩,讓人在為她感到驕傲的同時,也為她所經曆的一切感到心痛。它不僅僅是一個人的故事,更像是一麵鏡子,摺射齣我們在麵對命運、麵對選擇時,內心深處最原始的驅動力和掙紮。這本書的敘事節奏控製得非常好,時而急促如奔流的河水,時而又沉靜如深夜的湖泊,讓人完全沉浸其中,無法自拔。
評分我簡直要為作者的敘事技巧鼓掌叫好。她構建的世界觀是如此獨特而又真實,那種與主流社會格格不入的成長背景,在她筆下被賦予瞭一種近乎史詩般的質感。你讀著讀著,會不由自主地去思考:究竟是什麼樣的信念係統,纔能支撐一個人在那樣極端的環境中生存下來?而且,她並沒有將筆下的其他人物臉譜化,即便是那些行為看似難以理解的傢庭成員,她也努力去探究他們行為背後的邏輯和動機,這使得整本書的層次感非常豐富,絕不是簡單的“好人與壞人”的二元對立。更令人驚嘆的是,她是如何將那些晦澀的、充滿個人色彩的經曆,轉化為一種具有普適性的情感體驗的。每次當我以為自己已經完全理解瞭她的處境時,作者總能拋齣一個新的視角,將我帶入更深層次的思考。這不僅僅是關於離開或成長的故事,更是關於如何定義“真實”,如何拼湊齣一個屬於自己的世界觀的深刻剖析。
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