Hillbilly Elegy [Movie Tie-In]
Collins (Verlag)
978-0-06-304598-9 (ISBN)
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THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER IS NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD AND STARRING AMY ADAMS, GLENN CLOSE, FREIDA PINTO AND GABRIEL BASSO
"You will not read a more important book about America this year."-The Economist
"A riveting book."-The Wall Street Journal
"Essential reading."-David Brooks, New York Times
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, 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.
A deeply moving memoir, with its share of humor and vividly colorful 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.
Vance, J. D.
J.D. Vance grew up in the Rust Belt city of Middletown, Ohio, and the Appalachian town of Jackson, Kentucky. He enlisted in the Marine Corps after high school and served in Iraq. A graduate of the Ohio State University and Yale Law School, he has contributed to the National Review and the New York Times, and works as an investor at a leading venture capital firm. Vance lives in Columbus, Ohio, with his family.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 20.11.2020 |
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| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 135 x 203 mm |
| Gewicht | 217 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Politik / Gesellschaft |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| Schlagworte | 2017 • 2018 • 2019 • 21st Century • Abuse • addiction • Adult • Adult Non-Fiction • alcoholism • America • American • Americana • American Culture • American dream • American History • american industry • American Politics • American Society • American South • Appalachia • Appalachian • Appalachians • Audible • Autobiography • autobiography and memoir • bio • Biography • book club • book group • Christianity • Class • class decline • Classism • Cultural Studies • Culture • culture in crisis • Current events • Demography • Domestic violence • drug abuse • Drug Addiction • Drugs • dysfunctional families • dysfunctional family • Economic conditions • Economics • Education • Family • Family history • family story • Fly over states • forgotted workers • forgotten states • grandparents • Hardcover • hillbillies • Hillbilly • Hillbilly Elegy • History • J D Vance • JD Vance • journalist author • Kentucky • Law • Law School • Library • lower class • Marine • Marine Corps • Marines • marriage • Memoir • middle america • middle class • Middletown • National Review • Non-fiction • Nonfiction • nytimes bestseller • Ohio • own • personal memoir • Politics • Poor • poor american • poor american family • poor family • poor whites • Poverty • Race • reading groups • real americans • Rural • Rural America • Rust Belt • scots-irish • Social capital • Social Class • social class in america • Social commentary • Social conditions • Social History • social issues • social ladder • Social mobility • Social Science • Society • Socio-Economics • Sociology • South • substance abuse • the south • True story • Trump supporters • Unemployment • United States • unowned • Upward Mobility • USA • US culture • us history • US politics • Vance • welfare • White Trash • why did trump win • Working Class • working class whites • Yale • Yale Law School |
| ISBN-10 | 0-06-304598-2 / 0063045982 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-06-304598-9 / 9780063045989 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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