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All Over but the Shoutin’ is a powerful memoir by Rick Bragg that chronicles his rise from a dirt‑poor upbringing in northeastern Alabama—a place where the cotton mills or prisons seemed the only outcomes—to a celebrated career as a Pulitzer‑winning journalist for The New York Times. The book offers an intimate portrait of Bragg’s father, a hard‑drinking, volatile man, and a remarkable portrayal of his mother, who sacrificed personal comfort to provide her sons with school clothes and to keep them from thrusting into welfare. Through lyrical and honest storytelling, Bragg captures the love, suffering, and determination that define working‑class life in rural America, especially within Alabama and the broader Southern United States.
First publish date: 1997
Genre: Memoir/Personal Memoir
Authors: Rick Bragg
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