Hillbilly elegy :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
264 pages ; 24 cm
Edition
First edition.
Production / Publication Information
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2016]
Summary
Shares the story of the author's family and upbringing, describing how they moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan that included the author, a Yale Law School graduate, while navigating the demands of middle class life and the collective demons of the past.
Call Number
BIOG/VANCE
Publication Date
2016
Language
English
ISBN
9780062300546
Hillbilly elegy :
Author
Format:
Sound recording
Physical Description
1 audio media player (420 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Edition
Unabridged.
Production / Publication Information
Solon, Ohio : Findaway World, LLC, [2017]
Summary
"Hillbilly Elegy is [an] analysis of a culture in crisis -- that of poor, white Americans. The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for over forty years, has been reported with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. In Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hanging around your neck. The Vance family story began with hope 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 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."--
Call Number
PLAY/BIOG/VANCE
Publication Date
2017
Language
English
ISBN
9781509465750
Hillbilly elegy :
Author
Format:
Large print
Physical Description
381 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Edition
Large print edition.
Production / Publication Information
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2017.
Summary
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.
Call Number
LP/BIOG/VANCE
Publication Date
2016-2017
Language
English
ISBN
9781410496669 9781432840006
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