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Hillbilly elegy a memoir of a family and culture in crisis / Cover Image Large Print Book

Hillbilly elegy [large print] : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis / J.D. Vance.

Vance, J. D., (author.).

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"Part memoir, part historical and social analysis, J. D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy is a fascinating consideration of class, culture, and the American dream. Vance's grandparents were "dirt poor and in love." They got married and moved north from Kentucky to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. Their grandchild (the author) graduated from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of their success in achieving upward mobility for their family. But Vance cautions that is only the short version. The slightly longer version is that his grandparents, aunt, uncle, and mother struggled to varying degrees with the demands of their new middle class life and they, and Vance himself, still carry around the demons of their chaotic family history. Delving into his own personal story and drawing on a wide array of sociological studies, Vance takes us deep into working class life in the Appalachian region. This demographic of our country has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, and Vance provides a searching and clear-eyed attempt to understand when and how "hillbillies" lost faith in any hope of upward mobility, and in opportunities to come. At times funny, disturbing, and deeply moving, this is a family history that is also a troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large portion of this country"-- Provided by publisher.

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  • ISBN: 9780063438354
  • ISBN: 0063438356
  • Physical Description: 359 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
  • Edition: large print, 1st Harper edition
  • Publisher: New York, New York : Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2024]

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-359).

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Vance, J. D.
Vance, J. D. > Family.
Working class white people > United States > Biography.
Working class white people > United States > Social conditions.
Appalachian Region > Economic conditions.
Mountain people > Kentucky > Social conditions.
Social mobility > United States > Case studies.
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Large print books.

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