All Over but the Shoutin': A MemoirNATIONAL 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. |
Contents
A man who buys books because theyre pretty | 3 |
A killing and a man who tried to walk on water | 15 |
Fake gold other peoples houses and the finest man I never knew | 23 |
Copyright | |
41 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
afraid ain't Alabama Anniston Star asked aunt baby Bear Bryant believe Birmingham brother Calhoun County called church cold cornbread daddy damn dark dead death door dream drink drove drunk editor eyes face feel felt gave girl grandma guess hair Haiti hands happened hard head hurt inside Jacksonville State University killed kinfolks knew later laugh looked Miami momma mother never newspaper nice night once Overtown Pell City Pétionville Possum Trot pretty pulled Randy Henderson remember Rick Bragg road rock Roy Webb Sam and Mark seemed seen shot side smell someone sometimes stared stood story sure talk tell thing thought told took trees tried truck trying uncle waiting walked wanted watched week woman write wrote yard York young