Hillbilly Elegy caused a big stir when it came out in 2016, and was recommended by everybody from
The Economist and
The New York Times to
The Wall Street Journal and
The National Review. And recommended by me too
- my mom grew up in the same region, and even though I'm not of his political bent, much of JD Vance's story resonated with me.
Now
Hillbilly Elegy is on sale for £0.99, and with a £2.99 Audible narration, in the UK, as part of today's UK Daily Deal, possibly since it's soon to be a Netflix movie. (I'm not really sure how it is going to work as a movie, but then I don't watch many movies anyway...)
Kindle UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hillbilly-E...dp/B01JR1KJBC/
Kindle UK/Smile:
https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Hillbilly...dp/B01JR1KJBC/
Spoiler:
Quote:
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
Coming November 2020 as a major motion picture from Netflix starring Amy Adams and Glenn Close
‘The political book of the year’ Sunday Times
‘A frank, unsentimental, harrowing memoir … A superb book’ New York Post
‘I bought this to try to better understand Trump’s appeal … but the memoir is so much more than that. A gripping, unputdownable page-turner’ India Knight, Evening Standard
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.
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