Hillbilly Elegy
The Internationally Bestselling Memoir from Trump’s Future Vice-President of the United States
Description of book
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER / OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD
THE AMERICAN VICE PRESIDENT'S ORIGIN STORY
‘Essential reading for this moment in history’ New York Times
'You will not read a more important book about America this year' Economist
‘Brilliant … offers an acute insight into the reasons voters have put their trust in Trump’ Observer
J. D. Vance grew up in the hills of Kentucky. His family and friends were the people most of the world calls rednecks, hillbillies or white trash.
In this deeply moving memoir, Vance tells the story of his family’s demons and of America’s problem with generational neglect. How his mother struggled against, but never fully escaped, the legacies of abuse, alcoholism, poverty and trauma. How his grandparents, ‘dirt poor and in love’, gave everything for their children to chase the American dream. How Vance beat the odds to graduate from Yale Law School. And how America came to abandon and then condescend to its white working classes, until they reached breaking point.
‘A beautiful memoir but it is equally a work of cultural criticism about white working-class America … Vance offers a compelling explanation for why it’s so hard for someone who grew up the way he did to make it … a riveting book’ Wall Street Journal
** Now a major-motion picture directed by Ron Howard and starring Amy Adams, Glenn Close, and Gabriel Basso **
Ratings & reviews
4.1
★★★★☆393 ratings
4.2
★★★★☆302 ratings
Pretty interesting description of a boy growing up in a not so stable home beating the odds to become high level lawyer (and decade later a vice-president of USA). JD uses simple language pondering his life and choices giving a picture of pretty reasonable guy. I get the feeling he nostalgices some parts too much and glazes himself or his family slightly. Some people might find problems how much he speaks about just white people, but I took it as him describing his family roots and specific group of Kentucky "hillbillys" emigrating to Ohio and staying back home. I have no doubt that same working lower middle-class troubles touch every race.
Markus
★Book5
★Narration5
Ich frage mich wieviel der öffentliche J.D. Vance, der aktuell als US-Vice-President fungiert mit dem J. D. von damals zu tun hat, oder ob es nicht die 100%ige Erklärung für sein jetziges Verhalten ist.
Karin
★Book5
★Narration5
Otroligt intressant att få inblick i detta skikt av Amerika. Dessa människor, ofta bespottade och hånade, vissa går upp i sin enkelhet men också kärleksfullhet, som manifesteras på just detta vis. Oerhört värdefull inblick!
Elisabeth
★Book5
★Narration4
We know J.D. Vance as Americas Vice President who seems and I really wanted to know where he came from hoping to understand his current positions … in some ways I do and in more ways it‘s even more unbelievable … J.D. Vance comes from a working class family and has suffered a hughe amount of childhood drama. His parents basically abandoned him. Drug and alcohol abuse was part of his childhood. His grandparents and his older sister were the once who raised him and made his life possible. He made his way to college and graduated from Jale law school. He could be a real success story, the American dream and in many ways he is. He just seems to have forgotten about his past or upbringing. I really don’t get how you start out like that, claim to want to help people and turn into whatever he is now. Besides that it is an interesting tale and gives inside into the American life of the working class. It illustrates social problems they need to be seen and worked on. It really is a pity
Alexandra
★Book4
★Narration3
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