About this title: A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's account of making his way in the world, from a humble beginning in poverty-stricken rural Alabama to international fame as a "New York Times" reporter.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780679774020ISBN:0679774025
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Binding: Audio Cassette
Publisher: Random House Audio
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780375405037ISBN:0375405038
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Binding: Audio Cassette
Publisher: Random House Audio
Date Published: 1997-08-26
ISBN-13:9780679460497ISBN:0679460497
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Date Published: 08/1997
ISBN-13:9780679442585ISBN:0679442588
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"What a brilliant book this was - I really enjoyed it.
Back Cover Blurb: 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."
"I was prepared to not like this book and I didn't much enjoy it for about the first 40 pages or so. It seemed like just one more sad predictable story about growing up in a family tortured by the pervasive effects of alcoholism.
And then the author, journalist Rick Bragg, veered into a searingly revealing personal remembrance that is a memorable read. The author grew up in the South, second son of a poor white family. He describes the indignities he suffered with poor living conditions, social rejection and emotional pain that are intrinsic to being a child of poverty.
What makes this book memorable is that he reveals both his pain and shame and goes on to show how he coped with those feelings and managed in spite of the hardship of a less-than-ideal childhood to become a Pulitzer prize winning New York Times news reporter. And all without being sappy.
I look forward to hearing him talk at MPCL in November."
"There are books you read that not only make you grateful for what you have, but especially for what you haven't, or more correctly what you never thankfully experienced.
Rick Bragg, Pulitzer Prize Winner for news editorials, touches you to the bone and breaks your heart ever so silenty with his memoirs of growing up in poverty, alcoholism and abuse on account of the father, but love as you've never read on account of the mother.
This is not a rags to riches story but one of rising from the ashes to reveal the truth of oneself and one's family from the hardest of times in the back country of the Appalacians.
Beautiful story. Beautiful talent. Beautiful man, author, Rick Bragg."
"I loved this book! Even though it was a heavier read than 'Ava's Man', probably because 'Ava's Man' was a memoir about his family told in the second person since his grandfather died the year before he was born, and the author said, "For that I've never forgiven him."
This book was bitter/sweet memoir written with painful honesty and some of the hurts he wrote about had to have been almost too much to remember let alone write about...
I felt like I was reading the words written by a true word genius! For example, he described the faith of his mother and family: "I am descended from a people who know there is a God with the same certainity that they know walking into a river will get them wet."
Or describing the poverty of his family..."Even though his pockets were emptier than a banker's soul, even though his family was as poor as poor got outside the shantytowns of the Depression, he wore pride like a suit of mail.""
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