Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis / J.D. Vance.
By: Vance, J. D [author.]
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BookPublisher: London : William Collins, 2017Description: 264 p. ; 20 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780008220563.Subject(s): Vance, J. D | Vance family | Working class -- United States | Whites -- United States -- Social conditions | Working class -- United States -- Biography | Biography | Biography & non-fiction prose | Memoirs | Poverty & unemployment | United States of America, USA | Social mobility | Social & cultural anthropology | Biography: generalDDC classification: 973.92092 VAN Summary: In this volume, Yale graduate J.D. Vance takes a probing look at America's white working class through his own experiences growing up. He tells a true story of what social, regional and class decline feels like when you were born with it hanging around your neck. As his family's saga plays out, the book shows how his grandparents, aunt, sister and, most of all, his mother struggled profoundly, never fully escaping the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty and trauma.
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'Essential reading for this moment in history' New York Times
'You will not read a more important book about America this year' Economist
'Brilliant ... offers an acute insight into the reasons voters have put their trust in Trump' Observer
J. D. Vance grew up in the hills of Kentucky. His family and friends were the people most of the world calls rednecks, hillbillies or white trash.
In this deeply moving memoir, Vance tells the story of his family's demons and of America's problem with generational neglect. How his mother struggled against, but never fully escaped, the legacies of abuse, alcoholism, poverty and trauma. How his grandparents, 'dirt poor and in love', gave everything for their children to chase the American dream. How Vance beat the odds to graduate from Yale Law School. And how America came to abandon and then condescend to its white working classes, until they reached breaking point.
'A beautiful memoir but it is equally a work of cultural criticism about white working-class America ... Vance offers a compelling explanation for why it's so hard for someone who grew up the way he did to make it ... a riveting book' Wall Street Journal
** Now a major-motion picture directed by Ron Howard and starring Amy Adams, Glenn Close, and Gabriel Basso **
Originally published: 2016.
Includes bibliographical references.
In this volume, Yale graduate J.D. Vance takes a probing look at America's white working class through his own experiences growing up. He tells a true story of what social, regional and class decline feels like when you were born with it hanging around your neck. As his family's saga plays out, the book shows how his grandparents, aunt, sister and, most of all, his mother struggled profoundly, never fully escaping the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty and trauma.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
J.D. Vance grew up in Middletown, Ohio, and Jackson, Kentucky. He enlisted in the Marine Corps after high school and served for four years in Iraq. He is a graduate of the Ohio State University (2007-2009) Political Science and Philosophy, Summa Cum Laude and Yale Law School, Doctor of Law (J.D.) (2010-2013). He has contributed to the National Review and is the author of Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis. He is also a principal at a leading Silicon Valley investment firm.(Bowker Author Biography)