Hillbilly elegy
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"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 Times
Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisisthat 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 Kentuckys 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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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 01 mei 2018
Aantal pagina's: 272
Illustraties: Nee
Hoofdauteur: J. D. Vance
Hoofduitgeverij: HarperCollins
Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 136 mm
Product hoogte: 18 mm
Product lengte: 203 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 134 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 24 mm
Verpakking lengte: 201 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 538 g
eWaste: Nee
EAN: 9780062300553