Hillbilly Elegy - A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

 Harper Collins Publishing, 2016. Very rare true first edition. Black hardcover, publisher's device blindstamped on front board, titles in gilt to spine, binding tight and hinges intact with pictorial dust jacket in excellent condition. Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis of working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of the 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 a deeply moving memoir with its share of humor and vividly colorful figures, 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 the country. Hillbilly Elegy - A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance. Hardcover 264 pages ISBN:9780062300546