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Hillbilly Elegy

byJ. D. Vance

Who is this book for? Readers interested in social issues, memoirs, and the struggles of the working class.

Topics Family dynamicsSocial mobilityEconomic strugglesCultural crisisRural povertyWorking class challengesPersonal growthAmerican societyIdentity explorationSocial inequalityIdentitySocial ClassPovertyFamily
MoodReflective
HumorOccasional Humor
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERComing November 2020 as a major motion picture from Netflix starring Amy Adams and Glenn Close‘The political book of the year’ Sunday Times‘A frank, unsentimental, harrowing memoir … A superb book’ New York Post‘I bought this to try to better understand Trump’s appeal … but the memoir is so much more than that. A gripping, unputdownable page-turner’ India Knight, Evening StandardJ. 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.

Language

en

Published on

11/12/2020

Pages

272

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780008410964

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