{"product_id":"all-over-but-the-shoutin-a-memoir","title":"All Over But the Shoutin': A Memoir","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the Pulitzer Prize-winner and bestselling author, \"a grand memoir.... Bragg tells about the South with such power and bone-naked love ... he will make you cry\" (\u003ci\u003eAtlanta Journal-Constitution).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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 \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times.\u003c\/i\u003e It is also 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEvoking these lives--and the country that shaped and nourished them--with artistry, honesty, and compassion, Rick Bragg brings home the love and suffering that lie at the heart of every family. The result is unforgettable.\r","brand":"Rick Bragg","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44444455829740,"sku":"9780679774020","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9780679774020.jpg?v=1723556860","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/all-over-but-the-shoutin-a-memoir","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}