All over but the Shoutin'
Selected Book Details
- Paperback
- Author: Rick Bragg
- Publisher: Vintage
- Release Date: September 1998
- ISBN-10: 0679774025
- ISBN-13: 9780679774020
- List Price: $14.95
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
SummaryOne reason Rick Bragg won a Pulitzer Prize for his feature articles at the New York Times is that he never forgets his roots. When he writes about death and violence in urban slums, Bragg draws on firsthand knowledge of how poverty deforms lives and on his personal belief in the dignity of poor people. His memoir of a hardscrabble Southern youth pays moving tribute to his indomitable mother and struggles to forgive his drunken father. All Over but the Shoutin' is beautifully achieved on both these counts--and many more. |
Customer Reviews
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Raw & Beautifully written
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I picked this book up because my maiden name is Bragg. I took it on a road trip with my husband. After reading the 1st page, I started reading the book out loud to my husband. Rick Bragg has such a way with words. You can visualize, taste and smell everything he tells you. It is so incredibly vivid.
You are able to identify with, and root for his family. This is one of the best books I have ever read. I am now buying the rest of his books. My girlfriends are fighting over who gets it next based on the snippets I read aloud. This is not "light" reading. It grabs you and takes you for a ride as if you were standing next to him while it happened.
This is a keeper. I can not recommend this book highly enough. If you like Mitch Albom, you will like these stories. Even if you don't you should like these. They are true to life portraits that come alive with his words.
picked cotton and ironed
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Rick Bragg 7/26/59.
A Pulitzer Prize winning author & a teacher at the U of Alabama.
He grew up in Possum Trot, Ala. He likes old country music and old blues. He is married and has a step son.
He left the NY Times. He did not leave in good graces. He got in trouble. Info on the net is that he took 2 stories written by stringers and wrote 1st person accounts of them. He was never in the locations and gathered no info. It was leave the Times on his own or be fired.
He has been all over the world. Told all kinds of stories. He was even here in my home city,Oklahoma City, to cover the bombing. He walked among the blood and baby shoes from the nursery.
He has written one the best books I have read in a long time about his mother. MARGARET was a fine lady. A queen and a saint. She picked cotton during the day and ironed other peoples clothes at night. She kept her family together.
She loved her 3 sons dearly. She did everything with out the help of their daddy. He was mean drunk and not in their lives.
How/Why do good women pick such bad men? I do not understand how they come to love them.
Rick loves his mother and he gives you a perfect picture of his growing up years. No, it was not pretty.. it was very hard and they were very poor. I fell in love with grandfather CHARLIE B. He had his faults to be sure but he took good care of his family. (read about him in AVA'S MAN)
His books are about the POOR of the south. They have found a champion in him. Bragg shows you his subjects heart, minds and souls. He has a way with words Words are his friend. He is a natural story teller. I liked him. I wish there had been more photos.
Read....Ava's Man next...also read The Liar's Club.
*My mother deserves a book like this. Readers ..I bet YOURS does too. I wish I was a writer. I wish she was still alive so I could tell her how much I love her. Alma Elizabeth Hood Bell 1914 to 1996 from Tionesta, PA.
bette/60/okc
humility, honesty and openess
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When Rick Bragg tells his story it feels like you were welcomed into a private conversation, where the narrator brings a sense of humility, honesty and an openess that surrounds each word. This is the story of growing up in the South, at the low end of poverty, with an alcoholic father and a mother who strives and struggles to raise her children the best she can. It is a view of life in the South told with a clarity of one who not only lived it but took a look back and examined it, the positive and the negative, with an undisguised authenticity. His success at the New York Times seems to amaze him, as if at any minute he truly expects someone to jump out and say, "Okay, we were just messing with you, you don't belong here, leave!" His writing is completely without reserve, encompassing his story with a warmth and an exactness that is both simple and elegant, leaving it timeless.
Why you learn to read
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Great - great book. I have given it out as a gift many times. It's enriched everyone's life.
One of THOSE books
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I simply enjoy a really good book. And this is one of those books that you want to recommend to anybody and everybody, with rare confidence and without hesitation. Ever so often a someone has good story to tell and knows how to tell it. The reviews are extensive so I'll get out of your way. But before I leave I think that I should suggest a hardback copy because a lot of your friends will be passing this one around.
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