Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis

Title
Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis

Author
Vance, J. D., author.

ISBN
9781504734332
 
9781504734325

Edition
Unabridged.

Physical Description
6 audio discs (6 3/4 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in.

General Note
Title from container.

Personal Subject
Vance, J. D.
 
Vance, J. D.-Family.

Subject Term
Working class white people -- United States -- Biography.
 
Working class white people -- United States -- Social conditions.
 
Social mobility -- United States

Genre
Audiobooks

Local Subject
Spoken compact disc collection.

Summary
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. Shares the story of the author's family and upbringing, describing how they moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan that included the author, a Yale Law School graduate, while navigating the demands of middle class life and the collective demons of the past.


LibraryCall NumberStatus
Hardwood Creek Library (Forest Lake)SCD 305.562 VAN 6 DISCSAudiobooks Nonfiction
R.H. Stafford Library (Woodbury)SCD 305.562 VAN 6 DISCSAudiobooks Nonfiction