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03347aam a22004095a 4500 001 2F2FC346154D11EDB0B9073D48ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220806010038 006 m o d 007 cr cn||||||||| 008 211207s2018 xxu es 000 0 eng d 020 $a 0062872257 (electronic bk.) 020 $a 9780062872258 (electronic bk.) 028 42 $a MWT14721173 040 $a Midwest $e rda $d SILO 082 14 $a [E] 100 1 $a Vance, J. D. 245 10 $a Hillbilly elegy : $b a memoir of a family and culture in crisis $h [electronic resource] / $c J.D. Vance. 264 1 $a [United States] : $b HarperCollins Publishers, $c 2018. 300 $a 1 online resource 506 $a Digital content provided by hoopla. 520 $a #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, NAMED BY THE TIMES AS ONE OF "6 BOOKS TO HELP UNDERSTAND TRUMP'S WIN" AND SOON TO BE A MAJOR-MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD. 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. 538 $a Mode of access: World Wide Web. 600 10 $a Vance, J. D. 600 10 $a Vance, J. D. $x Family. 650 0 $a Working class whites $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Working class whites $z United States $x Social conditions. 650 0 $a Mountain people $z Kentucky $x Social conditions. 650 0 $a Social mobility $z United States $v Case studies. 650 0 $a Electronic books. 651 0 $a Appalachian Region $x Economic conditions. 710 2 $a hoopla digital. 856 40 $u https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12557510?utm_source=MARC $z Instantly available on hoopla. 856 42 $z Cover image $u https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/hpc_9780062872258_180.jpeg 941 $a 1 952 $l GFPE771 $d 20220806012103.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2F2FC346154D11EDB0B9073D48ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search