Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis
(Playaway)
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Playaway
Edition
Unabridged
Status
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PLAYAWAY 305.562 VANCE
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PLAYAWAY 305.562 VANCE
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Appalachian Region -- Economic conditions
Audiobooks
Audiobooks.
Mountain people -- Kentucky -- Social conditions
Poverty -- History
Social mobility -- United States -- Case studies
Vance, J. D
Vance, J. D. -- Family
Working class white people -- United States -- Biography
Working class white people -- United States -- Social conditions
Audiobooks
Audiobooks.
Mountain people -- Kentucky -- Social conditions
Poverty -- History
Social mobility -- United States -- Case studies
Vance, J. D
Vance, J. D. -- Family
Working class white people -- United States -- Biography
Working class white people -- United States -- Social conditions
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Edition
Unabridged
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (approximately 7 hrs.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Release date supplied by publisher
General Note
Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player
General Note
Originally released by Harper Audio ℗2017
Participants/Performers
Read by the author
Description
"Hillbilly Elegy is [an] analysis of a culture in crisis -- that of poor, white Americans. The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for over forty years, has been reported with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. In Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hanging around your neck. The Vance family story began with hope 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."--,Provided by publisher
System Details
Playaway; required earphones available at Circulation Desk
Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Vance, J. D. (2017). Hillbilly elegy: a memoir of a family and culture in crisis (Unabridged). Findaway World, LLC.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Vance, J. D.. 2017. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis. Findaway World, LLC.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Vance, J. D.. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis Findaway World, LLC, 2017.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Vance, J. D.. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis Unabridged, Findaway World, LLC, 2017.
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