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Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis / J.D. Vance.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating HD8073.V37 A3 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vance, J. D., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vance, J. D.
- Vance, J. D--Family.
- Working class white people--United States--Biography.
- Working class white people.
- Working class white people--United States--Social conditions.
- Social mobility--United States--Case studies.
- Social mobility.
- Appalachian Region--Economic conditions.
- Appalachian Region.
- Mountain people--Kentucky--Social conditions.
- Mountain people.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 264 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2016]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-264).
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Miller fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780062300546 : HRD
- 0062300547 : HRD
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