The Resource Bad jobs and poor decisions : dispatches from the working class, J.R. Helton
Bad jobs and poor decisions : dispatches from the working class, J.R. Helton
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The item Bad jobs and poor decisions : dispatches from the working class, J.R. Helton represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
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- Summary
- "The unattainable quest for middle-class stability is hauntingly captured in this biting portrayal of forgotten America Weaving the brackish humor of Chuck Palahniuk with the empathy of Barbara Ehrenreich, JR Helton brings to life an obscured underside of the American psyche in this unflinching account of life inside the working class of Texas in the 1980s. We first meet Helton as a struggling writer succumbing to the bleak reality of what it means to support himself and a troubled wife. That despair is transformed into resilience as Helton insightfully narrates his wayward years, enduring hateful employers and mind-numbing manual labor. Along the way, he introduces us to the real people toiling beneath the saccharine veneer of wealth that was the Reagan years: the ambitious and the lazy, the potheads and racists, as well as Vietnam vets too shaken to hold a paint brush, dead-beat fathers straining to pay child support, and the casual murderer. Raw and moving, Bad Jobs and Poor Decisions captures a microcosm of tattered America that straddles that dangerous line between ruin and redemption."--Provided by publisher
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 259 pages
- Contents
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- Prologue: 1989
- Other people
- Halloween
- Kansas
- Sweetheart of the rodeo
- Finding the cure for cancer
- Epilogue: 1989
- Isbn
- 9781631492877
- Label
- Bad jobs and poor decisions : dispatches from the working class
- Title
- Bad jobs and poor decisions
- Title remainder
- dispatches from the working class
- Statement of responsibility
- J.R. Helton
- Title variation
- Dispatches from the working class
- Subject
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- 1900-1999
- trueAuthors
- Autobiographies
- trueBlue collar workers
- trueCollege dropouts
- trueDrug abuse
- Helton, J. R., (John R)
- Helton, J. R., (John R)
- Man-woman relationships
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- Manners and customs
- trueMarital conflict
- trueMen/women relations
- Texas
- trueTexas -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- United States
- Working class -- Social conditions
- Working class -- United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Working class men
- trueWorking class men
- Working class men -- Texas -- Biography
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "The unattainable quest for middle-class stability is hauntingly captured in this biting portrayal of forgotten America Weaving the brackish humor of Chuck Palahniuk with the empathy of Barbara Ehrenreich, JR Helton brings to life an obscured underside of the American psyche in this unflinching account of life inside the working class of Texas in the 1980s. We first meet Helton as a struggling writer succumbing to the bleak reality of what it means to support himself and a troubled wife. That despair is transformed into resilience as Helton insightfully narrates his wayward years, enduring hateful employers and mind-numbing manual labor. Along the way, he introduces us to the real people toiling beneath the saccharine veneer of wealth that was the Reagan years: the ambitious and the lazy, the potheads and racists, as well as Vietnam vets too shaken to hold a paint brush, dead-beat fathers straining to pay child support, and the casual murderer. Raw and moving, Bad Jobs and Poor Decisions captures a microcosm of tattered America that straddles that dangerous line between ruin and redemption."--Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- autobiography
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- 10616249
- Cataloging source
- DLC
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- Helton, J. R.
- Dewey number
- 305.38/2309764
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
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- Helton, J. R.
- Helton, J. R.
- Working class men
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- Manners and customs
- Working class men
- Working class
- Texas
- Texas
- United States
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- dispatches from the working class
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- Bad jobs and poor decisions : dispatches from the working class, J.R. Helton
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- Contents
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- Prologue: 1989
- Other people
- Halloween
- Kansas
- Sweetheart of the rodeo
- Finding the cure for cancer
- Epilogue: 1989
- Control code
- 1902748
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 259 pages
- Isbn
- 9781631492877
- Lccn
- 2017032065
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- unmediated
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- (Sirsi) i9781631492877
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- Label
- Bad jobs and poor decisions : dispatches from the working class, J.R. Helton
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Prologue: 1989
- Other people
- Halloween
- Kansas
- Sweetheart of the rodeo
- Finding the cure for cancer
- Epilogue: 1989
- Control code
- 1902748
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 259 pages
- Isbn
- 9781631492877
- Lccn
- 2017032065
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9781631492877
- (OCoLC)988282578
Subject
- 1900-1999
- trueAuthors
- Autobiographies
- trueBlue collar workers
- trueCollege dropouts
- trueDrug abuse
- Helton, J. R., (John R)
- Helton, J. R., (John R)
- Man-woman relationships
- Man-woman relationships -- Texas
- Manners and customs
- trueMarital conflict
- trueMen/women relations
- Texas
- trueTexas -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- United States
- Working class -- Social conditions
- Working class -- United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Working class men
- trueWorking class men
- Working class men -- Texas -- Biography
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