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Hillbilly Elegy. A Memoir Of A Family And Culture In CrisisHillbilly Elegy. A Memoir Of A Family And Culture In Crisis 'Hillbilly Elegy' is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis that of white working class Americans. The Vance family story begins hopefully in post war 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
Hillbilly Elegy. A Memoir Of A Family And Culture In Crisis
'Hillbilly Elegy' is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis-that of white working-class Americans.
The Vance family story begins hopefully in post-war 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 their grandchild (the author) would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of their success in achieving generational upward mobility.
But as the family saga of 'Hillbilly Elegy' plays out, we learn that this is only the short, superficial version. Vance's grandparents, aunt, uncle, sister, and, most of all, his mother, struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, and were never able to fully escape the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America. Vance piercingly shows how he himself still carries around the demons of their chaotic family history.
A deeply moving memoir with its share of humour and vividly colourful 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.
SPECIFICATIONS:
Author:James David Vance - Джеймс Дэвид Вэнс
Publisher:William Collins
Language:English
Publication Date:2017
Number of pages:272 pst
Format:Paperback
Width:130 mm / 5,1'
Height:200 mm / 7,9'
Weight:250 g
ISBN:9780008220563
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