Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis / J.D. Vance;new afterword.
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.
Vance, a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, provides an account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class. 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. 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--Publisher's website.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780008220556
- ISBN: 0008220557
- ISBN: 9780062300546
- ISBN: 0062300547
- ISBN: 9780062300553
- ISBN: 0062300555
- Physical Description: 264 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2016.
- Copyright: ©2016.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Dates and paging may vary. "With a new afterword"--Cover. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Awards Note: | #1 New York Times Bestseller |
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| Genre: | Autobiographies. Case studies. |
Available copies
- 43 of 268 copies available at NC Cardinal.
- 1 of 7 copies available at Johnston County Affiliated Libraries. (Show)
Holds
- 123 current holds with 268 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Kenly Public Library | 305.5 Van (Text) | 38950611102437 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Kenly Public Library | B Vance (Text) | 38955500151155 | Adult Biography | On holds shelf | - |
| Mary Duncan Public Library | B Vance (Text) | 38950610997209 | Adult Biography | In transit | - |
| Princeton Public Library | B Vance (Text) | 38955500151940 | Adult New Biography | In transit | - |
| Public Library of Johnston County and Smithfield | B VANCE (Text) | 38950611119803 | Adult Biography | In transit | - |
| Public Library of Johnston County and Smithfield | B Vance (Text) | 38950611455793 | Adult Biography | Checked out | 11/14/2024 |
| Selma Public Library | B Vance (Text) | 38950610921340 | Adult Nonfiction | In transit | - |
| AMY Bookmobile/Outreach | NFIC 305.5 VAN (Text) | 35555002616052 | Adult Nonfiction | In transit | - |
| Albemarle Main Library | B Vance (Text) | 31010000685836 | Adult Nonfiction Display | Checked out | 11/06/2024 |
| Albemarle Main Library | B Vance (Text) | 31010000685851 | Adult Nonfiction Display | Checked out | 10/29/2024 |
| Albemarle Main Library | B Vance (Text) | 31010000685877 | Adult Nonfiction Display | In transit | - |
| Albemarle Main Library | B Vance (Text) | 31010000685885 | Adult Nonfiction Display | Checked out | 10/03/2024 |
| Albemarle Main Library | B Vance (Text) | 31010000685901 | Adult Nonfiction Display | On holds shelf | - |
| Albemarle Main Library | B Vance (Text) | 31010000685919 | Adult Nonfiction Display | On holds shelf | - |
| Albemarle Main Library | B Vance (Text) | 31010000773558 | Adult Nonfiction Display | In transit | - |
| Albert Carlton - Cashiers Community Library | 305.5 V (Text) | 39493110126317 | Adult Nonfiction | In transit | - |
| Albert Carlton - Cashiers Community Library | 305.5 V (Text) | 39493108018492 | Adult Nonfiction | In transit | - |
| Alexander Main Library | B Vance (Text) | 34269001172031 | Adult Biography | On holds shelf | - |
| Alleghany Public Library | B VANCE (Text) | 30664100340907 | Adult Biography | On holds shelf | - |
| Alleghany Public Library | B VANCE (Text) | 40599000968647 | Adult Biography | On holds shelf | - |
| Andrews Public Library | B VANCE (Text) | 80605000780733 | Adult Biography | Checked out | 11/08/2024 |
| Annie Hubbard McEachern Public Library | B VANCE (Text) | 34510611023019 | Adult Biography | Checked out | 11/05/2024 |
| Ashe County Public Library | B VANCE (Text) | 50503300422294 | Adult Nonfiction | In transit | - |
| Avery County Morrison Public Library | NFIC 305.5 VAN (Text) | 31111002812855 | Adult Nonfiction | Checked out | 10/30/2024 |
| Beaufort Main | B VANCE (Text) | 34208204076698 | Adult Biography | On holds shelf | - |
| Beaufort Main | B VANCE (Text) | 34208900229419 | Adult Nonfiction | Checked out | 10/28/2024 |
| Belhaven Public Library | B B Vance J (Text) | 38344400179014 | Adult Biography | On holds shelf | - |
| Berea Library | 305.5 VANCE (Text) | 42756100078341 | Adult New Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Berea Library | 305.5 VANCE (Text) | 42756100078358 | Adult New Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Bethlehem Branch | B Vance (Text) | 34269000189267 | Adult Biography | Checked out | 11/01/2024 |
| Black Mountain Library | B VANCE (Text) | 0020512939446 | Adult Biography | On holds shelf | - |
| Black Mountain Library | B VANCE (Text) | 0020513763076 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Black Mountain Library | B VANCE (Text) | 0020513763084 | Adult Biography | In transit | - |
| Black Mountain Library | B VANCE (Text) | 0020513763092 | Adult Biography | Checked out | 11/13/2024 |
| Bladen Main Branch | B VANCE (Text) | 30441100781293 | Adult Biography | In transit | - |
| Bogue Banks | B VANCE (Text) | 34208203585145 | Adult Biography | Checked out | 11/06/2024 |
| Bogue Banks | B VANCE (Text) | 34208900229393 | Adult Nonfiction | Checked out | 10/30/2024 |
| Boonville Community Public Library | B VANCE (Text) | 30005100210866 | Adult Biography | Checked out | 11/12/2024 |
| Bordeaux Library | B VANCE (Text) | 31781064575283 | Adult Nonfiction | Checked out | 11/12/2024 |
| Bordeaux Library | B VANCE (Text) | 31781068296274 | Adult Nonfiction | Checked out | 11/12/2024 |
| Braswell Memorial Main Library | B VANCE (Text) | 540191001760643 | Adult Biography | Checked out | 11/12/2024 |
| Braswell Memorial Main Library | B VANCE (Text) | 540191011091233 | Adult Biography | Checked out | 11/05/2024 |
| Bridger Memorial Library | B VANCE (Text) | 30441100940568 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Bryan Memorial Library | B Vance (Text) | 810191001957941 | Adult New Biography | In transit | - |
| C.B. Hildebrand Public Library | B VANCE (Text) | 33557004142931 | Adult Biography | On holds shelf | - |
| C.B. Hildebrand Public Library | B VANCE (Text) | 33557004666368 | Adult Biography | Checked out | 10/29/2024 |
| Canton Library | B Vance (Text) | 33115007021261 | Adult Biography | Checked out | 10/29/2024 |
| Clemmons Branch | 305.562 V (Text) | 0112520810716 | Adult Nonfiction | Checked out | 10/07/2024 |
| Clemmons Branch | 305.562 V (Text) | 0112522088780 | Adult Nonfiction | In transit | - |
| Cleveland County Main Library | B VANCE (Text) | 22281500101222 | Adult Nonfiction | On holds shelf | - |
