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Book

Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis

Author

J D Vance

Call Number

  • 921 V2222 (CEN, EAS, OSH, WSQ)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2016]

Physical Description

264 pages ; 24 cm

Summary

Shares the story of the author's family and upbringing, describing how they moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan that included the author, a Yale Law School graduate, while navigating the demands of middle class life and the collective demons of the past.

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