Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy

Book Overview

2020 American Book Award winner, Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award
Weatherford Award winner, nonfiction

With hundreds of thousands of copies sold, a Ron Howard movie in the works, and the rise of its author as a media personality, J. D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis has defined Appalachia for much of the nation. What about Hillbilly Elegy accounts for this explosion...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1946684791
• ISBN13: 9781946684790
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: West Virginia University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.4"