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All Over But the Shoutin'
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This 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 The... read more

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  • “If I should ever own a newspaper I shall set the society page on fire. I shall chase the society matrons out of my newsroom with a cattle prod when they come in with pictures from the debut. I shall....It is nice to dream.”
  • “But the truth is that most of them were good people, and couldn't help it that the worst day of their lives had involved wilted arugula.”
  • “When you have nothing, it forces your mind into gymnastics. Some days, your imagination has to do a double-back-flip just to find a way to eat.”
  • “Because no matter how dark it is, if I have faith, I have a song in the night.”
    Mrs. Stewart
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  • But somewhere between understanding and forgiveness there is another wall, too wide to get around.
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  • But I just stood there, trapped somewhere between my long-standing, comfortable hatred, and what might have been forgiveness. I am trapped there still.
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  • The only thing poverty does is grind down your nerve endings to a point that you can work harder and stoop lower than most people are willing to.
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  • But it is a common condition of being poor white trash: you are always afraid that the good things in your life are temporary, that someone can take them away, because you have no power beyond your own brute strength to stop them.
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  • “It’s all over but the shoutin’ now, ain’t it, boy,” he said, and when he let the quilt slide from his shoulders I saw how he had wasted away, how the bones seemed to poke out of his clothes, and I could see how it killed his pride to look this way, unclean, and he looked away from me for a moment, ashamed.
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  • to tell a story right you have to lean the words against each other so that they don’t all fall down,
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  • because dreaming backwards can carry a man through some dark rooms where the walls seem lined with razor blades.
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  • Pride pushed her out into the cotton field, in the same way that old terror, old pain squeezed my daddy into a prison of empty whiskey bottles.
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  • I was too damn dumb to know that a swagger is a silly walk for a man with yet a long way to go.
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  • the black family who lived down the dirt road from our house sent fresh-picked corn and other food to the poor white lady and her three sons, because they knew their daddy had run off, because hungry does not have a color.
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My mother and father were born in the most beautiful place on earth, in the foothills of the Appalachians along the Alabama-Georgia line.

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Prologue

I. The Widow's Mite
1. A Man Who Buys Books Because They're Pretty
2. A Killing, and a Man Who Tried to Walk on Water
3. Fake Gold, Other People's Houses, and the Finest Man I Never Knew
4. Dreaming that a Crooked Man Will Straighten Up and Fly Right
5. When God Blinks
6. The Free Show
7. No Papers on Him
8. In the Mouth of the Machine
9. One the Wings of a Great Speckled Bird
10. If You Got to Kill Somebody, Better it Ain't Family
11. Under a Hateful Sky
12. Getting Above Your Raising
13. Fine Qualities
14. 100 Miles Per Hour, Upside Down and Sideways
15. The Usual Suspects

II. Lies To My Mother
16. In the Temple
17. Saturdays in October
18. White Tuxedos
19. The Price Tag on Heaven
20. Under Vulcan's Hammer
21. Running Hot
22. What If
23. Paradise
24. Miami, in Madness
25. Eating Life
26. Tap-tap
27. Snow in a Can
28. The Interview for the Ivy League
29. Perfume on a Hog
30. New York
31. Coming Home
32. Dining Out with No Money, and Living with No Life
33. Buying Bodies, Eating Lobster

III. Getting Even With Life
34. Gone South
35. Abigail
36. Mrs. Smith, and Family
37. Monsters
38. Validation
39. 1.3 Acres
40. The Same
41. Who We Are
42. Safe in the Dark

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  1. Rick Bragg (Author)

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Page Count: 329

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Reading Level: Young Adults

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