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The Resource Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis, J.D. Vance

Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis, J.D. Vance

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"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."--
Language
eng
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Edition
Unabridged.
Extent
1 audio media player (420 min.)
Note
  • Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player
  • One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening
  • Originally released by Harper Audio ℗2017
Isbn
9781509465750
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Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis
Title
Hillbilly elegy
Title remainder
a memoir of a family and culture in crisis
Statement of responsibility
J.D. Vance
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Contributor
Author
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Language
eng
Summary
"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."--
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Vance, J. D
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305.5/62092
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  • Playaway Digital Audio
  • Findaway World, LLC
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  • Vance, J. D
  • Vance, J. D.
  • Poverty
  • Working class white people
  • Working class white people
  • Mountain people
  • Social mobility
  • Appalachian Region
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adult
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Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis, J.D. Vance
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Note
  • Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player
  • One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening
  • Originally released by Harper Audio ℗2017
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unknown
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unknown
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on1005118991
Dimensions
3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
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Edition
Unabridged.
Extent
1 audio media player (420 min.)
Form of item
direct electronic
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not applicable
Isbn
9781509465750
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digital, HD audio
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36711
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digital recording
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  • (OCoLC)1005118991
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Label
Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis, J.D. Vance
Publication
Copyright
Note
  • Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player
  • One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening
  • Originally released by Harper Audio ℗2017
Antecedent source
unknown
Capture and storage technique
unknown
Carrier category
  • other
  • other
Carrier category code
  • sz
  • nz
Carrier MARC source
  • rdacarrier
  • rdacarrier
Configuration of playback channels
unknown
Content category
spoken word
Content type code
  • spw
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
on1005118991
Dimensions
3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Dimensions
  • other
  • unknown
Edition
Unabridged.
Extent
1 audio media player (420 min.)
Form of item
direct electronic
Groove width / pitch
not applicable
Isbn
9781509465750
Kind of cutting
not applicable
Kind of disc cylinder or tape
not applicable
Kind of material
other
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
  • audio
  • computer
  • unmediated
Media MARC source
  • rdamedia
  • rdamedia
  • rdamedia
Media type code
  • s
  • n
Other physical details
digital, HD audio
Publisher number
36711
Quality assurance targets
absent
Reformatting quality
unknown
Special playback characteristics
digital recording
Specific material designation
other
Speed
other
System control number
  • (Sirsi) u926283
  • (OCoLC)1005118991
Tape configuration
not applicable
Tape width
not applicable

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