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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.
Personal Author:
Vance, J. D. author.
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2016]
Physical Description:
264 pages ; 24 cm
Summary:
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.
Language:
English
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.

Mountain people -- Kentucky -- Social conditions.

Social mobility -- United States -- Case studies.
Geographic Term:
Appalachian Region -- Economic conditions.
ISBN:
9780062300546
Format :
Book

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