Hillbilly Elegy

The Internationally Bestselling Memoir from Trump's Vice President of the United States

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

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

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Autorentext

J.D. Vance grew up in the Rust Belt city of Middletown, Ohio, and the Appalachian town of Jackson, Kentucky. He enlisted in the Marine Corps after high school and served in Iraq. A graduate of the Ohio State University and Yale Law School, he has contributed to the National Review and is a principal at a leading Silicon Valley investment firm. Vance lives in San Francisco with his wife and two dogs.

Klappentext

A deeply moving memoir, it gives an indepth analysis of a culture in crisis - that of the white working-class Americans. A "New York Times" No.1 bestseller, it has been described as 'The political book of the year' by the "Sunday Times"

Zusammenfassung
WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Time Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2016 SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE The political book of the year' Sunday Times You will not read a more important book about America this year' Economist