9780062300553-0062300555-Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

ISBN-13: 9780062300553
ISBN-10: 0062300555
Edition: Reprint
Author: J. D. Vance
Publication date: 2018
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Format: Paperback 288 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780062300553
ISBN-10: 0062300555
Edition: Reprint
Author: J. D. Vance
Publication date: 2018
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Format: Paperback 288 pages

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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (ISBN-13: 9780062300553 and ISBN-10: 0062300555), written by authors J. D. Vance, was published by Harper Paperbacks in 2018. With an overall rating of 4.3 stars, it's a notable title among other United States (Historical, State & Local, United States History, Poverty, Social Sciences, Rural, Sociology, Class) books. You can easily purchase or rent Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Paperback, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used United States books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.38.

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, NAMED BY THE TIMES AS ONE OF "6 BOOKS TO HELP UNDERSTAND TRUMP'S WIN" AND SOON TO BE A MAJOR-MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD

"You will not read a more important book about America this year."—The Economist

"A riveting book."—The Wall Street Journal

"Essential reading."—David Brooks,New York Times

Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for more than forty years, has been reported with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck.

The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.’s grandparents were “dirt poor and in love,” and moved north from Kentucky’s Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually one of their grandchildren would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of success in achieving generational upward mobility. But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that J.D.'s grandparents, aunt, uncle, sister, and, most of all, his mother struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, never fully escaping the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America. With piercing honesty, Vance shows how he himself still carries around the demons of his chaotic family history.

A deeply moving memoir, with its share of humor and vividly colorful figures, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels. And it is an urgent and troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country.

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