Hillbilly elegy: a memoir of a family and culture in crisis

AUTEUR(S): J.D. Vance.

TAAL: Engels.
UITGEVER: HARPERCOLLINS LTD.
JAAR: 2017.
PAGINA’S: 264.
DRUK: Heruitgave.
FORMAAT: mm.
GEWICHT: gram.
STAAT: Nieuw (New).
UITVOERING: Paperback.
ISBN/EAN: 9780008220563
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BESCHRIJVING

‘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. But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, the book shows how Vances grandparents, aunt, uncle, sister, and, most of all, his mother, struggled profoundly 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 humour and vividly colourful 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.