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Ava's Man

Rick Bragg

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English
Vintage Books
15 August 2002
NATIONAL BESTSELLER . With the same emotional generosity and effortlessly compelling storytelling that

made All Over But the Shoutin' a beloved bestseller, Rick Bragg continues his personal

history of the Deep South.

This time he's writing about his grandfather Charlie

Bundrum, a man who died before Bragg was born but left an indelible imprint on the

people who loved him. Drawing on their memories, Bragg reconstructs the life of an

unlettered roofer who kept food on his family's table through the worst of the Great

Depression; a moonshiner who drank exactly one pint for every gallon he sold; an

unregenerate brawler, who could sit for hours with a baby in the crook of his arm.

In telling Charlie's story, Bragg conjures up the backwoods hamlets of Georgia

and Alabama in the years when the roads were still dirt and real men never cussed

in front of ladies. A masterly family chronicle and a human portrait so vivid you

can smell the cornbread and whiskey, Ava's Man is unforgettable.
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Imprint:   Vintage Books
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 203mm,  Width: 132mm,  Spine: 15mm
Weight:   232g
ISBN:   9780375724442
ISBN 10:   0375724443
Pages:   259
Publication Date:  
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  A / AS level ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Rick Bragg is the best-selling author of All Over but the Shoutin' and Somebody Told Me. A national correspondent for the The New York Times, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in 1996. He lives in New Orleans.

Reviews for Ava's Man

Grab&amp;Yacute;s you from the first sentence....&amp;Yacute;and stays with you long after you put it down....It is hard to think of a writer who reminds us more forcefully and wonderfully of what people and families are all about. --The New York Times Book Review <br> Earthy, mischievous, yet gorgeous. . . . &amp;Yacute;Bragg's tales . . . would not be out of place if they were told around a campfire. --San Francisco Chronicle <br> As toothsome as a catfish supper. &amp;Yacute;Bragg is every bit the equal of . . . Harper Lee and Truman Capote. --People <br> &amp;Yacute;Bragg has a true gift for great storytelling (the kind...that makes you think it's just a plain old story, until he gets to the end and you're either weeping or covered with goosebumps). --New Orleans Times-Picayune


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