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With the same emotional generosity and effortlessly compelling storytelling that made All Over But the Shoutin’ a national 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... read more
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Characters edit
- Charlie Bundrum: The author's maternal grandfather.
- Ava: The author's maternal grandmother.
- Margaret: The author's mother.
- Ava: Ava is a dirt-poor, Southern American white woman who picked cotton during The Great Depression era. The author fondly retells stories that grew him up, about her husband, his grandfather, and his colorful family.
- Hootie: an odd looking man that keeps to himself near the swamp. Charlie befriends Hootie and is always calling him "son" even though Hootie is twenty years his senior.
- Edna: Add a description of this character.
- Juanita
- William
- Sam
- Jo
- Charles
- Bob
- Grace
- Jerry
- Newt Morrison
- Jeff
- Jimmy Jim
- Claude
- Jeanette
- Charlie Sanders
- Emma Mae
- Gadsden
- George
- Martin
- Mickey
- Dempsey
- Mr. Hugh
- Travis
- Granny Isom
Setting & Locations edit
- Alabama
- Georgia
- Rome
- Jacksonville
- Cove Road
- Anniston
- Birmingham
- Korea
- Guntersville
- Curryville
- Florida
First Sentence edit
Ava met him at a box-lunch auction outside Gadsden, Alabama, when she was barely fifteen, when a skinny boy in freshly washed overalls stepped from the crowd of bidders, pointed to her and said, "I got one dollar, by God."
Table of Contents edit
Prologue: On a Bluebird day
1. The Beatin' of Blackie Lee
2.Run Off
3.Jimmy Jim
4.Whistle Britches
5.Four-Eyes
6.In the Wild
7.Dead Dogs and Rolling Steel
8.Little Hoover
9.Movers
10.Hootie
11.The Big End
12.The Worst Of It
13.Margaret, and Mystery
14.Burning
15.Gettin' Happy
16.The Letter
17.Th Reardens
18.Reckoning
19.There But For Grace
20.Sons and Daughters
21.Free Cheese, Cold Water and Gentle Horses
22.Do Like I Say, Not Like I Do
23.Lost
24.Holy Name
25.Lying Still
26.Hello, and Goodbye
27.Underwater
28.Pilfered Roses
29.Jeanette,Child of God, and the Flour Girl
30.Sam
31.Saved
32.The Gremlin Goes Homes
33.Water Without end
34.All By and By
35.Blackbone
36. Ava
37.Always In Summer
Epilogue: Ghosts
Authors & Contributors edit
- Rick Bragg (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2001
ISBN: 0375410627
Page Count: 272
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2001
ISBN: 0375410627
Page Count: 272
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 975.042092
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