All over but the Shoutin' - Hardcover

Bragg, Rick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679442588 ISBN 13: 9780679442585

Verlag: Pantheon Books, 1997

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Book by Bragg Rick

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A Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent for The New York Times recounts growing up in the Alabama hills, the son of a violent veteran and a mother who tried to insulate her children from poverty and ignorance.

Nota de la solapa:

emoir about growing up dirt-poor in the Alabama hills--and about moving on but never really being able to leave.

The extraordinary gifts for evocation and insight and the stunning talent for story- telling that earned Rick Bragg a Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in 1996 are here brought to bear on the wrenching story of his own family's life. 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. A classic piece of Americana, it is made vividly, movingly particular by Rick Brag

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• Verlag: Pantheon Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0679442588
• ISBN 13: 9780679442585
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 329