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Title: All over but the Shoutin' by Rick Bragg, Rick Bragg ISBN: 0-679-77402-5 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 08 September, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.36 (250 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Different and exciting
Comment: What a pleasure it was to come across this book by accident. It's truly unlike anything else out there with its beautiful prose, its well-developed and earthy characters, and its marvelous settings. The mother figure in the story is by far one of the most moving portraits of a giving and wonderful parent ever written.
This is the story of a difficult existence in Alabama, told by one of this country's truly talented writers. Whether or not you grew up in poverty, you'll be moved by this remarkable account of courage and determination.
Also recommended: Welcome to the World, Cold Mountain, and Bark of the Dogwood
Rating: 5
Summary: A truly great book, one to own and treasure. Ten stars
Comment: Rick Bragg's memoir is really a poem of love for his mother disguised as a memoir. The language, the images, the affection for the relatives and characters who peopled his growing-up world of hardscrabble poor in rural Alabama - all ring clear and true. This Pulitzer Prize winner and former NYT feature reporter has created an absolutely beautiful book as he tells the all-too-familiar story of a saintly mother who prevails against an absent and alcoholic husband, lack of education, broken dreams, and aching poverty (she drank a glass of water and said she wasn't really very hungry as her 3 sons ate all the meager dinner she'd prepared).
Bragg had the smarts, the opportunity, and the determination necessary to break the bounds of his background, but he never lost the soul, never lost the heart, never lost the connection to 'my people.' Finally he can afford to give his mother something she's never had and always wanted: a house of her own. It doesn't come easy, and one senses that Bragg had to force it on her. And it came with the price of an additional chink in his relationship with some of his relatives, esp one of his brothers. There's a bit of hubris associated with the buying of that house, and I suspect Bragg himself is well aware of the ambivalence involved in his continuing close association with his roots.
Beautiful, beautiful book, a memoir that is equal parts humility and pride. Don't miss it.
Rating: 1
Summary: Uh huh...
Comment: So is this really Bragg's story, or is it another "borrowing" from an uncredited freelance writer? The guy's credibility is a bit questionable, yes? And now he has a grossly overwritten and incendiary book about Jessica Lynch. He's a parasite.
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Title: Ava's Man by Rick Bragg ISBN: 0375724443 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 13 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Somebody Told Me : The Newspaper Stories of Rick Bragg by Rick Bragg ISBN: 0375725520 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 28 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Wooden Churches: A Celebration by Rick Bragg ISBN: 156512233X Publisher: Algonquin Books Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Redbirds: Memories from the South by Rick Bragg ISBN: 1860463975 Publisher: Havill Pr Pub. Date: May, 1999 |
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Title: Sociology of Families : Readings by Cheryl Albers ISBN: 0761986103 Publisher: Pine Forge Press Pub. Date: 11 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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