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All Over but the Shoutin'
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize–winner and bestselling author, "a grand memoir.... Bragg tells about the South with such power and bone-naked love ... he will make you cry" (Atlanta Journal-Constitution).
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 also 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.
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 also 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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“Rick Bragg outlined a deep, poignantly written memoir All Over But The Shoutin, in which he describes the fight to do so as a process: “I have been putting this off for ten years, because it was personal, because dreaming backwards can carry a man through some dark rooms where the walls seem lined with razor blades.”. This memoir isn’t a roadmap to healing, nor is it a self-help book that claims to have all the answers. All Over But The Shoutin’ offers an honest look at the life he lived through his eyes. The love he has for his mother shines through his stories, and the pain left in the wake of his father’s demons is shown through the lives of the whole family. “To my daddy, the war was an adventure gone bad, not a family heirloom.” The stories about his father are very few due to his absence, but absence is still a great and heavy weight, especially when it leaves a mother and three young boys fighting for survival.”
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“Rick Bragg can certainly write an engaging tale. Loved this story of his mother, father, family and growing up poor in rural Alabama. Moments of such tenderness , sadness and also triumph. Parts of the book were a bit slower but the story of his mother just shone, what a remarkable woman and this is a lovely homage to her.”
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