All Over But the Shoutin'

All Over But the Shoutin' by Rick Bragg

NATIONAL 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.

All Over Except the Shoutin', Somebody Told Me, Ava's Man, and I Am a Soldier Too: The Jessica Lynch Story are among Rick Bragg's bestselling novels. In 1996, he won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. He currently resides in Alabama.

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ISBN 13	9780679442585
ISBN 10	0679442588
Title	All Over But the Shoutin'
Author	Rick Bragg
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Pantheon Books
Year published	1997-08-26
Number of pages	329
Prizes	Winner of ALA Notable Books (Nonfiction) 1998, Winner of Alex Awards 1998, Short-listed for Book Sense Book of the Year Award (Adult) 1998
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