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Vance, 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.… (més)
L'autor, narrant la seva vida, vol explicar i provar d'entendre la seva família i la societat dels blancs i pobres (majoritàriament d'origen irlandès i escocès) els orígens dels quals es troben al sud i centre dels Apalatxes i que molts, en el seu dia, van emigrar cap al nord industrial, de manera que quan aquest entrà en crisi es creà una gran bossa de pobresa entre una població. Gràcies a la seva àvia i a l'exèrcit -segons diu-, la seva és una història de superació malgrat les adversitats (violència, droga addicció, pobresa, inestabilitat familiar que va descrivint amb detall) perquè, entre altres aspectes, es gradua a Yale, però també és una història d'incomoditat amb el seu ascens social i, sobretot, d'empatia envers altres hillbillies, la majoria dels quals, no se'n surten i, per damunt de tots, els infants. M'ha agradat molt el fons de la narració, però en alguns aspectes m'ha semblat una mica àrida, una mica redundant, quasi psicoanalítica. ( )
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For Mamaw and Papaw, my very own hillbilly terminators
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Informació del coneixement compartit en anglès.Modifica-la per localitzar-la a la teva llengua.
Introduction My name is J. D. Vance, and I think I should start with a confession: I find the existence of the book you hold in your hands somewhat absurd.
Like most small children, I learned my home address so that if I got lost, I could tell a grown-up where to take me.
[Afterword] Many people, especially those who know me well, have asked me to describe my life since Hillbilly Elegy was published about two years ago.
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Informació del coneixement compartit en anglès.Modifica-la per localitzar-la a la teva llengua.
Vance, 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.
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Gràcies a la seva àvia i a l'exèrcit -segons diu-, la seva és una història de superació malgrat les adversitats (violència, droga addicció, pobresa, inestabilitat familiar que va descrivint amb detall) perquè, entre altres aspectes, es gradua a Yale, però també és una història d'incomoditat amb el seu ascens social i, sobretot, d'empatia envers altres hillbillies, la majoria dels quals, no se'n surten i, per damunt de tots, els infants.
M'ha agradat molt el fons de la narració, però en alguns aspectes m'ha semblat una mica àrida, una mica redundant, quasi psicoanalítica. (