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‘Essential reading for this moment in history’ New York Times
'You will not read a more important book about America this year' Economist
‘Brilliant … offers an acute insight into the reasons voters have put their trust in Trump’ Observer
J. D. Vance grew up in the hills of Kentucky. His family and friends were the people most of the world calls rednecks, hillbillies or white trash.
In this deeply moving memoir, Vance tells the story of his family’s demons and of America’s problem with generational neglect. How his mother struggled against, but never fully escaped, the legacies of abuse, alcoholism, poverty and trauma. How his grandparents, ‘dirt poor and in love’, gave everything for their children to chase the American dream. How Vance beat the odds to graduate from Yale Law School. And how America came to abandon and then condescend to its white working classes, until they reached breaking point.
‘A beautiful memoir but it is equally a work of cultural criticism about white working-class America … Vance offers a compelling explanation for why it’s so hard for someone who grew up the way he did to make it … a riveting book’ Wall Street Journal
** Now a major-motion picture directed by Ron Howard and starring Amy Adams, Glenn Close, and Gabriel Basso **
Anonymous
28/07/2024
Virkelig en interessant bog der giver et vitgodt indblik i den amerikanske underklasse. En yderst vel skrevet bog.
Guy
24/07/2024
Some wise person said :If you aint nutnn positive to say, clap it, so..................!
Astrid
15/11/2022
Jeg synes, at fortællingen virker ærlig. Jeg har godt nok svært ved at forbinde det med forfatterens nuværende standpunkter, men det er jo ikke uhørt, at folks holdninger ændres med tiden. Jeg er i hvert fald glad for at have hørt den.
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