All over but the shoutin'
by Rick Bragg
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A haunting memoir about growing up dirt-poor in the pines of Alabama - and about moving on but never really being able to leave.
It is the story of a war-haunted, hard-drinking father and a strong-willed, loving mother who struggled to protect her sons from the effects of poverty and ignorance that had constricted her own life. It is the story of the life Bragg was able to carve out for himself on the strength of his mother's encouragement and belief. And it is the story of his attempts to both atone for and avenge the mistakes and cruelties of his past.
All Over but the Shoutin' is a gripping account of people struggling to make sense and solidity of life's capricious promises.
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Biography, Childhood and youth, Journalists, Rural conditions, United States, Working class whites, Bragg, Rick, Journalists, biography, Alabama, biography, United states, rural conditions, Working class, united states, Large type books, Southern states, rural conditions, Working class white peoplePeople
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All over but the shoutin'
1997, Random House Large Print in association with Pantheon Books
in English
0679774424 9780679774426
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This haunting, harrowing, gloriously moving recollection of a life on the American margin is the story of Rick Bragg, who grew up dirt-poor in northeastern Alabama, seemingly destined for either the cotton mills or the penitentiary, and instead became a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times. It is the story of Bragg's father, a hard-drinking man with a murderous temper and the habit of running out on the people who needed him most.
But at the center of this soaring memoir is Bragg's mother, who went eighteen years without a new dress so that her sons could have school clothes and picked other people's cotton so that her children wouldn't have to live on welfare alone. Evoking these lives--and the country that shaped and nourished them--with artistry, honesty, and compassion, Rick Bragg brings home the love and suffering that lie at the heart of every family. The result is unforgettable.
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