Name: Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Price: 37.23 NZD
Availability: InStock
Author: J. D. Vance
ISBN: 9780062300553

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

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

Type

Physical Book

Author

J. D. Vance

Publisher

Harper Paperbacks

Year

2018

Language

English

Pages

288

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3 x 13.6 x 1.8 cm

Weight

0.25 kg.

ISBN13

9780062300553

Edition No.

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

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER IS NOW A MAJOR-MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD AND STARRING AMY ADAMS, GLENN CLOSE, AND GABRIEL BASSO"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 TimesHillbilly 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.

J. D. Vance

(Author)

View Author's Page

J.D. Vance is an American writer and entrepreneur known for his work in the field of non-fiction literature and politics. His most recognized book is Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (2016), an autobiographical work that explores the life of the white working class in the Appalachians and the socioeconomic challenges they face.

The success of Hillbilly Elegy led to its adaptation into a film in 2020. In addition to his career as a writer, Vance has dedicated himself to politics and social analysis, focusing on issues of inequality and economic mobility in the United States.

See less