Hillbilly Elegy
- Author : J. D. Vance
- Publisher : HarperCollins
- Release Date : 2018-05-01
- Genre: Social Science
- Pages : 288
- ISBN 10 : 9780062872258
GET BOOK- Hillbilly Elegy (2020) R 1h 56min Drama 24 November 2020 (USA) A Yale law student drawn back to his hometown grapples with family history, Appalachian values and the American dream. Director: Ron Howard Writers: Vanessa Taylor (screenplay), J.D.
- The story of an Appalachian family was told by J.D. Vance in his 2017 book, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir Of A Family And Culture In Crisis. It will soon become a Ron Howard Hollywood movie.
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Join us online for a discussion of the best selling and controversial memoir (and Netflix movie) 'Hillbilly Elegy' by J.D. After small group discussions of the book, we will join the online Main Hall to hear a panel discussion on the issues surrounding Adverse Childhood Experiences featuring Shari Scher of COIPP; Amanda Holk, Community Activist; and Alison Bomba, Psy.D., an area.
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THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER IS NOW A MAJOR-MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD AND STARRING AMY ADAMS, GLENN CLOSE, AND GABRIEL BASSO 'You will not read a more important book about America this year.'—The Economist 'A riveting book.'—The Wall Street Journal 'Essential reading.'—David Brooks, New York Times Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for more than forty years, has been reported with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. 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 one of their grandchildren would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of success in achieving generational upward mobility. But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that J.D.'s grandparents, aunt, uncle, sister, and, most of all, his mother struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, never fully escaping the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America. With piercing honesty, Vance shows how he himself still carries around the demons of his chaotic family history. A deeply moving memoir, with its share of humor and vividly colorful figures, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels. And it is an urgent and troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country.