Ava's Man Read By Rick Bragg
| Title | : | Ava's Man |
| Author | : | Rick Bragg |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Page | : | 259 pages |
| ISBN | : | 0375724443 |
With the same emotional generosity and effortlessly compelling storytelling that made All Over But the Shoutin a national bestseller, Rick Bragg continues his personal history of the Deep South This time he s writing about his grandfather Charlie Bundrum, a man who died before Bragg was born but left an indelible imprint on the people who loved him Drawing on their memo With the same emotional generosity and effortlessly compelling storytelling that made All Over But the Shoutin a national bestseller, Rick Bragg continues his personal history of the Deep South This time he s writing about his grandfather Charlie Bundrum, a man who died before Bragg was born but left an indelible imprint on the people who loved him Drawing on their memories, Bragg reconstructs the life of an unlettered roofer who kept food on his family s table through the worst of the Great Depression a moonshiner who drank exactly one pint for every gallon he sold an unregenerate brawler, who could sit for hours with a baby in the crook of his arm In telling Charlie s story, Bragg conjures up the backwoods hamlets of Georgia and Alabama in the years when the roads were still dirt and real men never cussed in front of ladies A masterly family chronicle and a human portrait so vivid you can smell the cornbread and whiskey, Ava s Man is unforgettable
about Author
Rick Bragg is the Pulitzer Prize winning writer of best selling and critically acclaimed books on the people of the foothills of the Appalachians, All Over but the Shoutin, Ava s Man, and The Prince of Frogtown.Bragg, a native of Calhoun County, Alabama, calls these books the proudest examples of his writing life, what historians and critics have described as heart breaking anthems of people usual Rick Bragg is the Pulitzer Prize winning writer of best selling and critically acclaimed books on the people of the foothills of the Appalachians, All Over but the Shoutin, Ava s Man, and The Prince of Frogtown.Bragg, a native of Calhoun County, Alabama, calls these books the proudest examples of his writing life, what historians and critics have described as heart breaking anthems of people usually written about only in fiction or cliches They chronicle the lives of his family cotton pickers, mill workers, whiskey makers, long sufferers, and fist fighters Bragg, who has written for the numerous magazines, ranging from Sports Illustrated to Food Wine, was a newspaper writer for two decades, covering high school football for the Jacksonville News, and militant Islamic fundamentalism for The New York Times.He has won than 50 significant writing awards, in books and journalism, including, twice, the American Society of Newspaper Editors Distinguished Writing Award He was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 1993, and is, truthfully, still a freshman at Jacksonville State University Bragg is currently Professor of Writing in the Journalism Department at the University of Alabama, and lives in Tuscaloosa with his wife, Dianne, a doctoral student there, and his stepson, Jake His only real hobby is fishing, but he is the worst fisherman in his family line 
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Published :2016-03-12T17:57+01:00
With the same emotional generosity and effortlessly compelling storytelling that made All Over But the Shoutin a national bestseller, Rick Brag
259 pagesRick Bragg
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