Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (English Edition)

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (English Edition)

作者
J. D. Vance
语言
英语
出版社
William Collins
出版日期
2016年8月6日
纸书页数
277页
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文件大小
1160 KB
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6485
更新日期
2023-06-15
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内容简介

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

Waterstones nonfiction Book of the Month (June)

A Time Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2016

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE

‘The political book of the year’ Sunday Times

‘You will not read a more important book about America this year’ Economist

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.

The Vance family story begins hopefully in post-war 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 their grandchild (the author) would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of their success in achieving generational upward mobility.

But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that this is only the short, superficial version. Vance’s grandparents, aunt, uncle, sister, and, most of all, his mother, struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, and 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.

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