All over but the Shoutin'

by Rick Bragg

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A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

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...Read more
  • ISBN10 0679774424
  • ISBN13 9780679774426
  • Publish Date 26 August 1997
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 20 May 2017
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Random House USA Inc
  • Imprint Large Print Editions
  • Edition Large type / large print edition
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 480
  • Language English