Hillbilly Elegy

傳記與回憶錄第 120 名

Hillbilly Elegy

J. D. Vance

初版 2016

7.27.2 / 10
評分 /10582 則評分信賴度 80%:評分中有這麼多來自讀者本身
#120 傳記與回憶錄共122本 領先該分類 2%
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關於本書

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.

分數的組成

各來源在 582 則評分上的均值是 7.0。數量到了這個級別,讀者票占權重的 80%,分數就停在 7.2——傳記與回憶錄的均值 8.1 幾乎拉不動它。

來源平均評分數權重
Open Library7.441 7%
Hardcover7.0541 93%

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同在傳記與回憶錄書架,分數介於 7.0 與 7.6 之間,與本書最接近的作品。