"Rick Bragg writes like a man on fire. And All Over but theShoutin' is a work of art. While reading this book, I fell in lovewith Rick Bragg's mother, Margaret Bragg, a hundred times. I feltlike I was reading one of the prophets in the Old Testament whenreading parts of this book. I thought of Melville, I thought ofFaulkner. Because I love the English language, I knew I was readingone of the best books I've ever read. By explaining his life to theworld, Rick Bragg explained part of my life to me. You feel thingsin every line this man writes. His sentences bleed on you. I weptwhen the book ended. I never met Rick Bragg in my life, but Icalled him up and told him he'd written a masterpiece, and I sentflowers to his mother."
--Pat Conroy
"Searingly honest, beautifully written, All Over but the Shoutin'is perhaps the most courageous thing Pulitzer Prize-winningjournalist Rick Bragg has ever written. Making his reputation onhis "dark gothic" stories of urban riots, community disasters, andHaitian bloodbaths, Bragg has never failed to record the grace anddignity of people who live their lives in the margins. All Over butthe Shoutin' is one more such story. But it is braver because themarginal people he gives us are himself, a child of "poor whiteSouthern trash," and his family--an alcoholic, mostly absentfather, and an extraordinary mother, quietly heroic in the face ofdevastating poverty. Bragg looks down the corridors of his pastwith love, hate, humor, regret, self-doubt, and understanding. Inthe telling, he may occasionally flinch, but he never turnsaway."
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