Name: Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (en Inglés)
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Author: J. D. Vance
ISBN: 9780062300546

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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

J. D. Vance

Editorial

Harper

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

272

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

22.9 x 16.0 x 2.8 cm

Peso

0.48 kg.

ISBN13

9780062300546

Categorías

Pobreza y precariedad
Vivienda y personas sin hogar
Comunidades rurales
Estudios étnicos

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (en Inglés)

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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, 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 TimesFrom a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working classHillbilly 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 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 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 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.

J. D. Vance

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J.D. Vance es un escritor y empresario estadounidense conocido por su trabajo en el ámbito de la literatura de no ficción y la política. Su libro más reconocido es Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Elegía Hillbilly: Una memoria de una familia y una cultura en crisis, 2016), una obra autobiográfica que explora la vida de la clase trabajadora blanca en los Apalaches y los desafíos socioeconómicos que enfrenta.

El éxito de Hillbilly Elegy lo llevó a ser adaptado al cine en 2020. Además de su carrera como escritor, Vance se ha dedicado a la política y al análisis social, con un enfoque en temas de desigualdad y movilidad económica en Estados Unidos.

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