Hillbilly Elegy

Hillbilly Elegy
Book cover of a rural road, old building, cloudy sky, and forest.
AuthorJ. D. Vance
LanguageEnglish
SubjectRural sociology, poverty, family drama
PublishedJune 2016 (Harper Press)
PublisherHarper
Pages264
Awards2017 Audie Award for Nonfiction
ISBN978-0-06-230054-6
OCLC952097610
LC ClassHD8073.V37

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis is a bestselling 2016 memoir by J. D. Vance about the Appalachian values of his Kentucky family and the social and socioeconomic problems of his hometown of Middletown, Ohio, where his mother's parents moved when they were young.

In 2020 it was adapted into the film Hillbilly Elegy directed by Ron Howard and starring Glenn Close and Amy Adams. The movie was received with mixed reviews,[1] being nominated at both the Golden Raspberries and the Oscars.

  1. ^ Howard, Ron (November 24, 2020), Hillbilly Elegy (Drama), Amy Adams, Glenn Close, Gabriel Basso, Imagine Entertainment, Netflix, retrieved July 15, 2024

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