Ava's Man by Rick Bragg

Ava's Man by Rick Bragg

With the same emotional generosity and effortlessly compelling storytelling that made All Over But the Shoutin' a national bestseller, Rick Bragg continues his personal history of the Deep South. This time he's writing about his grandfather Charlie Bundrum, a man who died before Bragg was born but left an indelible imprint on the people who loved him. Drawing on their memories, Bragg reconstructs the life of an unlettered roofer who kept food on his family's table through the worst of the Great Depression; a moonshiner who drank exactly one pint for every gallon he sold; an unregenerate brawler, who could sit for hours with a baby in the crook of his arm.

In telling Charlie's story, Bragg conjures up the backwoods hamlets of Georgia and Alabama in the years when the roads were still dirt and real men never cussed in front of ladies. A masterly family chronicle and a human portrait so vivid you can smell the cornbread and whiskey, Ava's Man is unforgettable.

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Rick Bragg is the author of three bestselling books, Ava's Man, All Over but the Shoutin', and The Prince of Frogtown. As a feature writer for the New York Times, he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1996 for his elegantly written stories about contemporary America. He divides his time between New Orleans and his native Alabama.

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ISBN 13	9780375410628
ISBN 10	0375410627
Title	Ava's Man
Author	Rick Bragg
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Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2001-08-21
Number of pages	259
Prizes	Winner of Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize (Nonfiction) 2002, Commended for Tayshas Reading 2003, Short-listed for Book Sense Book of the Year Award (Adult Nonfiction) 2002
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