All Over But the Shoutin'
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Reader: Rick BraggEdition: Audio Cassette
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Format: Abridged, Audiobook
Published: 1998-09-08
ISBN: 0375405038
Publisher: Random House Audio
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Book Review: Started out okay but....
Summary: 2 Stars
I found myself plodding on and on to get through this book. I thought the very early part of the memoir (about the first 1/4 of it) made for some very interesting reading. I liked the authors style--almost like reading a prose poem---but then the author took us in his early career as a journalist I read too many chapters about that; and that is when I shut the book for good.
Summary of All Over But the Shoutin'
2 cassettes / 3 hoursRead by the author
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"This is a moving, memorable audio, the kind that stays in the listener's mind long after it ends."?????????????????????? --Billboard
"Rick Bragg writes like a man on fire.??And All Over But The Shoutin' is a work of art.??While reading this book, I feel in love with Rick Bragg's mother, Margaret Bragg, a hundred times.??I felt like I was reading one of the prophets in the Old Testament when reading parts of this book.??I thought of Melville, I thought of Faulkner.??Because I love the English language , I knew I was reading one of the best books I've ever read.??By explaining his life to the world, Rick Bragg explained part of my life to me.??You feel things in every line this man writes.??His sentences bleed on you.??I wept when the book ended.??I never met Rick Bragg in my life, but I called him up and told him he'd written a masterpiece, and I sent flowers to his mother."--Pat Conroy
"A sort of Alabama version of Angela's Ashes, this memoir details the miserable, impoverished childhood that informed and inspired a young man who became a successful writer . . . . Throughout, Bragg's own vice barely contains his bitterness and rage." --Chicago Tribune
"Listening to myself read it aloud gave me the opportunity to hear my words in my own voice, not just in my mind.??Reading the sad parts out loud brought tears to my eyes.??It was a delightful experience, and I'm proud to have done it."
-Rick Bragg
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 eighteen years without a new dress so that her sons could have school clothes and picked other people's cotton so that her children wouldn't have to live on welfare alone.??Evoking these lives - and the country that shaped and nourished them - with artistry, honesty, and compassion, Rick Bragg brings hone the love and suffering that lie at the heart of every family.
The result is unforgettable.
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. All Over but the Shoutin' is beautifully achieved on both these counts--and many more.
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