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

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Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis / J. D. Vance. - New York ; London ; Toronto ; Sydney : Harper, 2018. - [16], 272 strony ; 21 cm.

Author

Vance J. D. Autor

Form of Work

Książki Literatura faktu, eseje, publicystyka

Demographic Group

Literatura amerykańska

Subject

Vance, J. D Awans społeczny Robotnicy Rodzina Ruchliwość społeczna Kentucky (Stany Zjednoczone ; rzeka)

Genre/Form

Pamiętniki i wspomnienia

Domain

Socjologia i społeczeństwo

Książka w języku angielskim. Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis--that 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 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, 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.

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Elegia dla bidoków : wspomnienia o rodzinie i kulturze w stanie krytycznym, 2016

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