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The Vance family story begins hopefully in post-war 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. A deeply moving memoir with its share of humour and vividly colourful figures, Hillbilly Elegy is 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 this country.

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« Là où les Américains voient des Hillbillies, des rednecks ou des White trash, je vois mes voisins, mes amis, ma famille. » Dans cet ouvrage à la fois personnel et politique, J.D. Vance raconte son enfance chaotique dans les Appalaches, cette immense région des États-Unis qui a vu l'industrie du charbon et de la métallurgie péricliter. Il décrit avec humanité et bienveillance la rude vie de ces « petits Blancs » du Midwest, ces « péquenots », que l'on dit xénophobes et qui ont voté pour Donald Trump. Roman autobiographique, Hillbilly Élégie nous fait entendre la voix d'une classe désillusionnée et pose des questions essentielles. Comment peut-on ne pas manger à sa faim dans le pays le plus riche du monde ? Comment l'Amérique démocrate, ouvrière et digne est-elle devenue républicaine, pauvre et pleine de rancune ?

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