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)
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- 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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| Cleveland County Main Library | B VANCE (Text) | 22281500132771 | Adult Nonfiction | In transit | - |
| Cliffdale Library | B VANCE (Text) | 31781065279711 | Adult Nonfiction | Checked out | 11/12/2024 |
| Cliffdale Library | B VANCE (Text) | 31781068296282 | Adult Nonfiction | Checked out | 11/13/2024 |
| Coats Public Library | B VANCE Van (Text) | 33633002210432 | Adult Biography | Checked out | 11/05/2024 |
| Columbus Library | 305.56 VAN (Text) | 31250200021076 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Columbus Library | 305.56 VAN (Text) | 31250200042927 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Cumberland Headquarters | B VANCE (Text) | 31781063732182 | Adult Nonfiction | In transit | - |
| Cumberland Headquarters | B VANCE (Text) | 31781065279687 | Adult Nonfiction | Checked out | 11/07/2024 |
| Cumberland Headquarters | B VANCE (Text) | 31781068296290 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Danbury Public Library | B VANCE (Text) | 40599000965163 | Adult Biography | Checked out | 11/05/2024 |
| Denton Public Library | B Vance (Text) | 25908007208114 | Adult Biography | Checked out | 11/08/2024 |
| Dobson Community Library | B VANCE (Text) | 30666100352774 | Adult Biography | On holds shelf | - |
| Dobson Community Library | B VANCE (Text) | 40599000993553 | Adult Biography | In transit | - |
| Dorothy Wightman Library | ANF 305.5 VAN (Text) | 30372101531751 | Adult Nonfiction | Checked out | 11/14/2024 |
| Dorothy Wightman Library | B VANCE, J.D (Text) | 30372102074611 | Adult Biography | In process | - |
| Down East | B VANCE (Text) | 34208203559306 | Adult Biography | Checked out | 11/12/2024 |
| Down East | B VANCE (Text) | 34208900229401 | Adult Nonfiction | Checked out | 11/02/2024 |
| Dunn Public Library | B VANCE Van (Text) | 33436001593489 | Adult Biography | In transit | - |
| Dunn Public Library | B VANCE Van (Text) | 33436001806352 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Dunn Public Library | B VANCE Van (Text) | 33436001806410 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| East Asheville Library | B VANCE (Text) | 0020511333187 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| East Regional Library | B VANCE (Text) | 31781064141961 | Adult Nonfiction | In transit | - |
| East Regional Library | B VANCE (Text) | 31781065279737 | Adult Nonfiction | Checked out | 10/04/2024 |
| East Regional Library | B VANCE (Text) | 31781068296308 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Eden Library | 305.562 V (Text) | 31554010073855 | Adult Nonfiction | Checked out | 10/31/2024 |
| Edneyville Branch | 305.562 V (Text) | 33258008043627 | Adult Nonfiction | In transit | - |
| Edneyville Branch | 305.562 V (Text) | 33258010422356 | Adult Nonfiction | In transit | - |
| Elkin Public Library | B VANCE (Text) | 40599000987845 | Adult Biography | In transit | - |
| Emily Hill Library | ANF 305.5 VAN (Text) | 30372101556816 | Adult Nonfiction | On holds shelf | - |
| Enka-Candler Library | B VANCE (Text) | 0020511429779 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Erwin Public Library | B VANCE Van (Text) | 33631001583486 | Adult Biography | In transit | - |
| Etowah Branch | 305.562 V (Text) | 33258008025368 | Adult Nonfiction | Checked out | 11/01/2024 |
| Etowah Branch | 305.562 V (Text) | 33258010422374 | Adult Nonfiction | On holds shelf | - |
| Fairview Library | B VANCE (Text) | 0020511258848 | Adult Biography | Checked out | 11/12/2024 |
| Farmville Public Library | B VAN (Text) | 23900000019934 | Adult Biography | On holds shelf | - |
| Fines Creek Library | B Vance (Text) | 33115007660552 | Adult Biography | On holds shelf | - |
| Fletcher Branch | 305.562 V (Text) | 33258008083755 | Adult Nonfiction | In transit | - |
| Fletcher Branch | 305.562 V (Text) | 33258010422383 | Adult Nonfiction | Checked out | 11/13/2024 |
| Forsyth Central | 305.562 V (Text) | 0112521135972 | Adult Nonfiction | In transit | - |
| Forsyth Central | 305.562 V (Text) | 0112522183178 | Adult Nonfiction | In transit | - |
| Forsyth Central | 305.562 V (Text) | 0112523897262 | Adult Nonfiction | Checked out | 09/14/2024 |
| Forsyth Central | 305.562 V 2016 (Text) | 0112524061821 | Adult Nonfiction | In transit | - |
| George H. & Laura E. Brown Library | B Van (Text) | 30308101124445 | Adult Biography | Checked out | 11/12/2024 |
| Goldsboro Library | B VANCE (Text) | 900000000441163 | Adult Nonfiction | In transit | - |
| Graham County Library | 921 VAN (Text) | 80605001429488 | Adult Nonfiction | On holds shelf | - |
| Graham County Library | B VANCE (Text) | 80605001335362 | Adult Biography | In transit | - |
| Green River Branch | 305.562 V (Text) | 33258008043635 | Adult Nonfiction | Checked out | 11/20/2024 |
| Greene County Public Library | B VANCE (Text) | 39149007453103 | Adult Biography | In transit | - |
| Gunn Memorial Public Library | 305.562 VAN (Text) | 34621704401333 | Adult Nonfiction | Checked out | 10/28/2024 |
| Halifax Main Library | B VANCE HAL (Text) | 01011700000191 | Adult Biography | On holds shelf | - |
