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All over but the shoutin' / Rick Bragg.
LIBRA - Special PN4874.B6625 A3 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bragg, Rick.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bragg, Rick.
- Bragg, Rick--Childhood and youth.
- Journalists--United States--Biography.
- Journalists.
- Rural conditions.
- Working class white people.
- United States.
- Alabama.
- Working class white people--Alabama--Biography.
- Alabama--Biography.
- Alabama--Rural conditions.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 329 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- [First Vintage edition].
- Other Title:
- All over but the shouting
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., [1998]
- Summary:
- This haunting, harrowing, and gloriously moving recollection of a life on the American margin tells the story of Rick Bragg, who grew up dirt poor in Alabama, and who became a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for "The New York Times". Photos.
- Contents:
- Widow's mite: Man who buys books because they're pretty; Killing, and a man who tried to walk on water; Fake gold, other people's houses, and the finest man I never knew; Dreaming that a crooked man will straighten up and fly right; When God blinks; Free show; No papers on him; In the mouth of the machine; On the wings of a great speckled bird; If you got to kill somebody, better it ain't family; Under a hateful sky; Getting above your raising; Fine qualities; 100 miles per hour, upside down and sideways; Usual suspects
- Lies to my mother: In the temple; Saturdays in October; White tuxedoes; Price tag on heaven; Under Vulcan's hammer; Running hot; What if; Paradise; Miami, in madness; Eating life; Tap-tap; Snow in a can; Interview for the Ivy league; Perfume on a hog; New York; Coming home; Dining out with no money, and living with no life; Buying bodies, eating lobster
- Getting even with life: Gone south; Abigail; Mrs. Smith, and family; Monsters; Validation; 1.3 acres; Same; Who we are; Safe in the dark.
- Notes:
- Publisher's advertisements: [1] p. at end.
- ISBN:
- 0679774025
- 9780679774020
- OCLC:
- 39887910
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