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All over but the Shoutin'
by Rick Bragg
Turtleback, Published 2000 by Demco Media
ISBN-13: 978-0-606-19677-2, ISBN: 0-606-19677-3
"One 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. A ..."
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