Catalog Search Results
Author
Publisher
Pantheon
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
329 p. ;
Language
English
Description
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 New York Times. It is the story of Bragg's father, a hard-drinking man with a murderous temper and the habit of running out on the people who needed him most....
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
x, 255 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author describes the life of his alcoholic father, from his upbringing in Jacksonville, Alabama, until his death from tuberculosis, and merges it with his own fatherly experiences with his ten-year-old stepson.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
p2009
Edition
[Library edition]
Physical Desc
4 sound discs (ca. 4 hr. 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In these real-life stories, Rick Bragg brilliantly evokes the hardscrabble lives of those who live and die by an American cotton mill. In 2001, a community of people in the Appalachian foothills had come to the edge of all they had ever been. Across the South, padlocks and chains bound the doors of silent mills. It seemed a miracle to blue-collar people in Jacksonville, Alabama, that their mill still bit, shook, and roared. The mill had become almost...
In CLOVER Interlibrary Loan
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by VOKAL can be requested from other CLOVER Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Make a purchase suggestion
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request