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 Redbirds - Rick Bragg
Newest Review: ... dreams to the point that the hopelessness shows through, and the dreamer accepts that hard work and borrowed houses are all ... more  ... this life will ever be. While my mother will stare you dead in the eye and say she never thought of herself as poor, do not believe for one second that she did not see
the rest of the world, the better world, spinning around her, out of reach." But although so many parts of his life were ruled by poverty Bragg came from a people rich in culture and the traditions of the pinewoods, there were games, storytellings, handcrafts...more |
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Redbirds - Rick Bragg: I'll Stake My Pulitzer On It (1224 words)
by - written on 06/08/01 (Very useful, 154 readings)
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Oh, how long have you got? Why is it so hard to squash a lovely book into a little review? And why is it so especially hard when the book itself isn't squashed, but beautifully relaxed and unhurried and nice to read? Redbirds is like that and I'll try to tell you about so that you go and read it, because you should. Rick Bragg was born in the deep South of the United States, in Alabama. His father was a violent, hard-drinking man who regularly beat his wife; once as a small child, Bragg saw his mother tip away his fathers 'likker' and watched when his father returned and she simply stood there, took off her glasses and said, "Don't hurt ... Read the complete review
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