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008			161031t20172016meu db 000 0 eng
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020			_a9781410496669 _q(hardcover ; _qlarge print)
020			_a141049666X _q(hardcover ; _qlarge print)
035			_a(OCoLC)959805486 _z(OCoLC)1002370295
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092			_aVance, J. _bV222
100	1		_aVance, J. D., _eauthor. _9311177
245	1	0	_aHillbilly elegy : _ba memoir of a family and culture in crisis / _cJ.D. Vance.
250			_aLarge print edition.
264		1	_aFarmington Hills, Mich. : _bThorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, _c2017.
264		4	_c©2016
300			_a381 pages ; _c23 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
490	0		_aThorndike Press large print basic
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 377-379).
520			_aVance, a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, provides an account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm. J.D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck. The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J.D.'s grandparents were "dirt poor and in love," and moved north from Kentucky's Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually their grandchild (the author) would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of their success in achieving generational upward mobility. But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that this is only the short, superficial version. Vance's grandparents, aunt, uncle, sister, and, most of all, his mother, struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, and were never able to fully escape the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America.
600	1	0	_aVance, J. D. _9311177
600	1	0	_aVance, J. D. _xFamily. _9311178
650		0	_aWorking class whites _zUnited States _vBiography. _9311179
650		0	_aWorking class whites _zUnited States _xSocial conditions. _9311180
650		0	_aMountain people _zKentucky _xSocial conditions. _9311182
650		0	_aSocial mobility _zUnited States _vCase studies. _9311183
651		0	_aAppalachian Region _xEconomic conditions. _9311181
655		0	_aLarge type books. _9848
655		7	_aAutobiographies. _2lcgft _9728
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