J. D. Vance Knihy

Podmanivá sonda do problémov bielej robotníckej triedy v Amerike z pera bývalého vojaka a absolventa prestížnej právnickej fakulty, ktorý vyrástol v chudobnom mestečku v Hrdzavom páse. Dielo ponúka výnimočný pohľad na kultúru v kríze očami niekoho, kto zažil a prekonal chudobu a útrapy tejto komunity. Analyzuje príčiny rozkladu, ktorý sa začal pred viac než štyridsiatimi rokmi a dnes dosahuje alarmujúce rozmery. J. D. Vance poskytuje kritický pohľad na sociálny, regionálny a triedny úpadok, do ktorého sa rodia deti s ťažkým osudom. Príbeh rodiny Vanceovcov začína v povojnovej Amerike plnej nádeje. Starí rodičia, „strašne chudobní a zaľúbení“, sa presťahovali z Kentucky do Ohia, aby unikli biede. Založili rodinu strednej triedy a jeden z vnukov vyštudoval Právnickú fakultu Yalovej univerzity, čo dokazuje úspešnú generačnú mobilitu. Postupne sa ukazuje, že rodinná sága nebola idylická; autorovi blízki sa často nedokázali prispôsobiť nárokom strednej triedy a čelili násiliu, alkoholizmu a chudobe. J. D. Vance úprimne priznáva, že aj jeho samého prenasledujú démoni rodinnej minulosti. Dielo je hlboko dojímavou kronikou, plnou humoru a živých opisov osudov protagonistov, a ponúka naliehavú úvahu o precitnutí z amerického sna, ktorý zostáva mnohým vzdialený.

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--Publisher's website

From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful 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.

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