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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Didn't Vance write the book that became a movie starring Amy Adams as his mom and Glenn Close as grandmaw or mee maw? Hillbilly Elegy? [/quote] Is the movie any good? I’ve neither watched it or read the book [/quote] The book was a bestseller. (I haven't read it but I've certainly heard of it.) It's a memoir - so people have complained about some inaccuracies or exaggerations, but they don't understand memoirs. Memoirs aren't autobiographies, they are the story of someone's life. [/quote] There is a lot of valid criticism of the book. He paints a broad brush, with lots of stereotypes, and blames people for standing in their own way of success. He also said drunk uncles who beat their wives were the epitome of masculinity. It’s easy to google this. Many writers from Appalachia have criticized it, many of them women who also weren’t given lucrative speaking roles in television because they didn’t deal in tragi-porn (and are also women). [/quote]
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