Author: J.D. Vance
Published: June 28 2016
ISBN: 0062300547
ISBN13: 9780062300546
Pages: 257
“J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy, part memoir, part social analysis, is a fascinating examination of culture, class, and the American dream of working class white Americans in Appalachia. Hillbilly Elegy explores how and when “hillbillies” lost faith in the American dream and in any hope of upward mobility through the prism of Vance and his mother and grandparents. This examination of the personal and sociological problems facing America’s white working class is a text that will engage college and university students and would spark many probing conversations if used in First-Year Experience and classroom adoption.” – Harper Collins Publishers
