Rick Bragg, Author . Knopf $25 (272p) ISBN 978-0-375-41062-8
Following up his bestselling memoir, All Over But the Shoutin'
, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Bragg again creates a soulful, poignant portrait of working-class Southern life by looking deep into his own family history. This new volume
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Rick Bragg, Author . Knopf $24.95 (255p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4040-7
Bragg (All Over but the Shoutin'
) continues to mine his East Alabama family history for stories, this time focusing on the life of his alcoholic father. Unlike his previous two memoirs, Bragg merges his father's history of severe...
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Rick Bragg, Author Pantheon Books $26 (329p) ISBN 978-0-679-44258-5
""A common condition of being poor white trash,"" explains New York Times correspondent Bragg on learning he won a Pulitzer Prize last year, is that ""you are always afraid that the good things in your life are temporary, that someone can take them...
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Rick Bragg. Oxmoor, $27.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8487-4639-1
Full of homespun philosophy and reflection, the 72 short essays in this collection from Pulitzer-winner Bragg (All Over But the Shoutin') present a paean to his Southern roots. Grouped under "Home," "Table," "Place," "Craft," and "Spirit," the...
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Rick Bragg. Knopf, $28.95 (528p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4041-4
For Southerners, notes Bragg (All Over but the Shoutin’), every recipe is a story, not simply a list of ingredients, and he cannily shares the stories of the meals of his mother’s Alabama upbringing. For the book, Bragg asked his mother to share the
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Rick Bragg. Harper, $27.99 (512p) ISBN 978-0-06-207822-3
Bragg, writing closely with Lewis, offers this rollicking, incendiary tale of the man who kick-started rock and roll and blazed a fiery trail strewn with heartache, happiness, regret, and memorable music. Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Bragg (All
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Rick Bragg, read by the author. Random House Audio, unabridged, 16 CDs, 19.5 hrs., $50 ISBN 978-0-525-58864-1
Cookbooks don’t translate easily to the audiobook format, but Bragg, reading in a friendly Southern drawl, manages to effortlessly transform this collection of his mother’s Southern comfort food recipes into an utterly captivating listening...
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Rick Bragg, Author, Rick Bragg, Read by , read by the author. Random $25.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-375-41889-1
In less capable hands, this biography could have been mawkish and mundane. Instead, Bragg's telling of his maternal grandfather's life is eloquent and touching, and his spare prose is alive with fresh metaphors and memorable sentences. Bragg
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Rick Bragg, Author, Rick Bragg, Read by , read by the author. Random House Audio $34.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-6839-8
In reading his latest autobiographical title, which alternates between the rough-and-tumble rural South of his origins and the contemporary suburban South of his preteen stepson, Bragg smoothly invokes colloquial pronunciations such as the dropping...
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Rick Bragg. Knopf, $27.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-593-31778-5
Despite a generous helping of folksy wit and charm, this compilation of previously published columns from Pulitzer winner Bragg (The Best Cook in the World) amounts to a frustratingly shallow tribute to the South. There are laugh-out-loud moments...
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