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Rick Bragg
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Redbirds: Memories from the South |
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| Published in: |
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English |
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Paperback |
| Pages: |
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329 |
| Date: |
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1998-05 |
| ISBN: |
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1860463967 |
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Harvill Press |
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1.05 pounds |
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5.7 x 8.2 x 1.2 inches |
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Product Description
This autobiography recounts how Bragg, brought up in poverty in the deep South, ended up a Pulitzer Prize-winning report for the "New York Times". The book is an account of growing up in an impoverished, ragged white Alabama family - poor to the point that even "nigras" would bring them food. He writes of his deprived yet hilarious childhood in the 1960s, of his uncomplaining mother's back-breaking labour, and of his father's poisonous behaviour towards her and how he himself managed to escape the treadmill of hopelessness that his two brothers walk today.
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