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Hillbilly Elegy

- A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

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A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

Waterstones Nonfiction Book of the Month (June)

‘THE POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR’ Sunday Times

‘You will not read a more important book about America this year’ Economist

‘A memoir of life in the Trump-voting white working class is the political book of the year’ Sunday Times

‘Hillbilly Elegy’ is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis – that of white working-class Americans. 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, 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 post-war 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. Vance piercingly shows how he himself still carries around the demons of their chaotic family history.

A deeply moving memoir with its share of humour and vividly colourful 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.

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  • SprogEngelsk
  • Varighed06:49
  • Udgivelsesdato22-09-2016
  • ISBN139780008220570
  • Forlag Harpercollins Publishers
  • MålgruppeGeneral
  • FormatLydbog download

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4.4 27 anmeldelser (8 skriftlige)
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Søren G 17 31/07/2024

Mange gode pointer om folk, der ikke klarer sig godt (aka 'tabere'). Pointerne gælder i vid udstrækning også for Danmark og fortæller at der er væsentlige grænser for hvad det offentlige sektor/det politiske system kan gøre.

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Ulla D 6 19/01/2018

This book was hard to get through. Took me a month even though it's fairly short and well written. I thought I'd be interested but there wasn't really anything here that surprised me or anything new. Kid grows up in tough circumstances, survives and is able to climb the social ladder because he is lucky to have people (his Mamaw and Papaw are pretty awesome characters) in his life that genuinely care about him and support him, and because he joins the US military. Yet, he seems to be a republican voter who doesn't think that a more even distribution of wealth might be the ticket to better circumstances for his people. For heaven's sake, he argues among other things that payday loans are great for poor people and no legislation is needed to protect them. Wtf? For him, it comes down to everyone toughening up and doing better by their kids. Micro-level solutions to macro-level problems. Yawn!

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Ole R 24/05/2025

Mine forventninger blev gjort til skamme. Manden har jo humor…

Claus J 25/04/2025

Giver et interessant indblik i den amerikanske arbejderklasses genvordigheder - og i den meget aktuelle J.D. Vance’s baggrund.

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Camilla J 16/11/2024

Læs denne bog, hvis du vil forstå, hvad der sker i USA og hvorfor så mange amerikanere stemmer på Trump. Det er en virkelig god bog!

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Shane S 27/10/2024

Bogen giver et godt indblik i mentalitet af dem på bunden af det amerikanske samfund

Anette F 01/09/2024

For en dansker er denne bog et meget interessant indblik i hillbilly life - som vi kun kender i stereotyper og som mange af os møder med hovedrysten. Jeg blev klogere på denne gruppe af mennesker og har større indsigt i deres historie og deraf afledte verdenssyn. Faktisk kom jeg helt til at holde af de karakterer Vance kærligt portrætterer og vil møde dem med mindre fordømmelse i fremtiden. At forfatteren sidenhen har taget en mere rabiat politisk drejning, skal ikke stå værket til last.

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Henrik Z 21/07/2024

Fremragende og nærværende. Utrolig indsigtsfuldt og tankevækkende.

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