The Resource Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis, J.D. Vance ; with a new afterword
Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis, J.D. Vance ; with a new afterword
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The item Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis, J.D. Vance ; with a new afterword represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Vancouver Public Library.
- Summary
- From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a probing look at the struggles of America's white working class through the author's own story of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town. Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis-that of poor, white Americans. The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for over forty years, has been reported with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. In HillbillyElegy, J.D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hanging around your neck. The Vance family story began with hope 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- Note
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- Available to Vancouver Residents only
- Residents of other municipalities should check their local libraries
- Isbn
- 9780062872258
- Label
- Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis
- Title
- Hillbilly elegy
- Title remainder
- a memoir of a family and culture in crisis
- Statement of responsibility
- J.D. Vance ; with a new afterword
- Subject
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- Electronic books
- Working class whites -- United States -- Biography
- Mountain people -- Kentucky -- Social conditions
- Social mobility -- United States -- Case studies
- Working class whites -- United States -- Social conditions
- Vance, J. D. -- Family
- Appalachian Region -- Economic conditions
- Vance, J. D
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a probing look at the struggles of America's white working class through the author's own story of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town. Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis-that of poor, white Americans. The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for over forty years, has been reported with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. In HillbillyElegy, J.D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hanging around your neck. The Vance family story began with hope 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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- Vance, J. D
- Index
- no index present
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- Vance, J. D
- Vance, J. D.
- Working class whites
- Working class whites
- Mountain people
- Social mobility
- Appalachian Region
- Label
- Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis, J.D. Vance ; with a new afterword
- Note
-
- Available to Vancouver Residents only
- Residents of other municipalities should check their local libraries
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Color
- multicolored
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780062872258
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Publisher number
- EB00719676
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- 51a81e75-1f33-4dd3-a84e-f650e19f81dd
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1035315443
- Label
- Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis, J.D. Vance ; with a new afterword
- Note
-
- Available to Vancouver Residents only
- Residents of other municipalities should check their local libraries
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Color
- multicolored
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780062872258
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Publisher number
- EB00719676
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- 51a81e75-1f33-4dd3-a84e-f650e19f81dd
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1035315443
Subject
- Appalachian Region -- Economic conditions
- Electronic books
- Mountain people -- Kentucky -- Social conditions
- Social mobility -- United States -- Case studies
- Vance, J. D
- Vance, J. D. -- Family
- Working class whites -- United States -- Biography
- Working class whites -- United States -- Social conditions
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- trueThe New York Times Best Sellers - Paperback Nonfiction
- trueThe New York Times Best Sellers - Politics and American History
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