Bragg, Rick.
Summary: A haunting memoir about growing up dirt-poor in the Alabama hills--and about moving on but never really being able to leave. The extraordinary gifts for evocation and insight and the stunning talent for story- telling that earned Rick Bragg a Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in 1996 are here brought to bear on the wrenching story of his own family's life. It is the story of a war-haunted,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1997
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Summary: Rick Bragg closes his circle of family stories with a tale of fathers and sons inspired by his own relationship with his ten-year-old stepson. Having married a mother, he discovers that he is unsuited to fatherhood, to this boy in particular, a boy accustomed to love and affection rather than violence and neglect--a boy wholly unlike the child Rick once was. With the weight of this new boy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2008
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Summary: A collection of over sixty feature articles written by Rick Bragg for the "New York Times" in which he explores questions of everyday life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Alabama Press 2000