J.D. Vance
Hardcover | Pages: 257 pages Rating: 3.93 | 276189 Users | 26376 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis |
| ISBN: | 0062300547 (ISBN13: 9780062300546) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Middletown, Ohio(United States) New Haven, Connecticut(United States) Jackson, Kentucky(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Audie Award for Nonfiction (2017), Ohioana Book Award for About Ohio or an Ohioan (2017), Kirkus Prize Nominee for Nonfiction (2016), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Memoir & Autobiography (2016) |
Description In Pursuance Of Books Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America’s white working classHillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on 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 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 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.
Mention Of Books Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
| Title | : | Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis |
| Author | : | J.D. Vance |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 257 pages |
| Published | : | June 28th 2016 by Harper |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography. Audiobook |
Rating Of Books Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Ratings: 3.93 From 276189 Users | 26376 ReviewsCrit Of Books Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
HILLBILLY ELEGIST: YOUR BOOK SMELLS BAD ENOUGH TO KNOCKA BUZZARD OFF A SHIT WAGONMa lives in the hollerway back yander thar.she plays the fiddle and singsjust like Emmy Lou.Mamaw chews tobaccoand spits the wad right in her old Styrofoam cup.even in front of company.my pa was a coal minerand beats us younguns cus he meaner than a polecatand a little touchedwhen he is drunker than Cootey Brown.We refused welfare don't believe in eatinghigh on the hog,so I picked my poor self upand so can y'all.I'll be honest I didn't totally finish the book before giving up. I hear Vance on NPR and the story caught my attention. Yet, what I thought would be a better analysis of American economics and poverty proved to be very different. It's one of those conservative love stories of " I got my shit together so everyone can". While I respect the struggle Vance had, I also believe it's a very naive picture of what is going on. It explains why people FEEL a way. It does not explain the systemic issues
When I bought this book I didn't really read the title closely so I really just assumed it said Hillbilly Energy and so I like assumed it was going to be something about solar energy on farms, I don't know I have a presumption problem clearly, so I was kind of confused when I started to read the book. I really did enjoy the book though and I felt Vance was insightful. The only thing is he seems to start to lose steam by the end of the book but ending books is always harder than beginning them.
Please sit down, Mr Vance. Well holler if we need you.
I grew up in a similar community.... wanted to like this book, but I lost all respect for it because the author didn't discuss the enormous issue of racism in the context of rural white poverty. A cowardly omission.
I read this book as an advance galley, long before it became a Thing and I did not read this book because I wanted Vance to explain Trump, though he's somehow been chosen by liberal media as the person to do just that (though the handful of interviews I saw seemed more like Chris Matthews wanted to pat himself on the back for having a guest with hillbilly cred than actually listening to what Vance had to say). I didn't think this book would have mass appeal because no one outside of Appalachia
I read this book as an advance galley, long before it became a Thing and I did not read this book because I wanted Vance to explain Trump, though he's somehow been chosen by liberal media as the person to do just that (though the handful of interviews I saw seemed more like Chris Matthews wanted to pat himself on the back for having a guest with hillbilly cred than actually listening to what Vance had to say). I didn't think this book would have mass appeal because no one outside of Appalachia
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