Hillbilly Elegy A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Hillbilly Elegy
A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
- Wydawnictwo: William Collins Books
- Rok wydania: 2019
- ISBN: 9780008220563
- Ilość stron: 264
- Format: 13.0x20.0cm
- Oprawa: Miękka
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Opis: Hillbilly Elegy
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 class
Hillbilly 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.
Szczegóły: Hillbilly Elegy
Tytuł: Hillbilly Elegy
Podtytuł: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Wydawnictwo: William Collins Books
ISBN: 9780008220563
Języki: angielski
Rok wydania: 2019
Ilość stron: 264
Format: 13.0x20.0cm
Oprawa: Miękka
Waga: 0.245 kg
