All Over But The Shoutin’ $175.00
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New York, NY: Pantheon (1997)
Very good in decorated wrappers with edge wear. There is a 1″ square sticker shadow on the front end paper.
Somebody Told Me $35.00
Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press (2000)
Very good–plus in dust jacket.
From children who are killers to an elderly woman’s last bequest; from State Troopers saving potential suicides on Floridean bridge to an Inmate Rodeo at Angola Prison in Louisiana; here are more than sixty stories by Pultizer Prize winner Rick Bragg showing the sadness and the humanity that exist all around us. This collection showcases Bragg’s talent for turning seemingly ordinary situations into extraordinary stories by bringing together his most recent feature articles most of them written for the New York Times. Bragg explores such questions as: What happens to someone released from prison for a crime he didn’t commit? Who takes care of the graves of poor people? What keeps an elderly woman from selling her land for a healthy profit? Bragg’s curiosity often leads him to society’s margins, where he returns with some of the most insightful and poignant journalism we have seen in some time.
The Prince of Frogtown $50.00
New York, NY: Knopf (2008)
Fine in dust jacket.
In this final volume of the beloved American saga that began with “All Over but the Shoutin'” and continued with “Ava’s Man,” Rick Bragg closes his circle of family stories with an unforgettable tale about fathers and sons inspired by his own relationship with his ten-year-old stepson.
He learns, right from the start, that a man who chases a woman with a child is like a dog who chases a car and wins. He discovers that he is unsuited to fatherhood, unsuited to fathering this boy in particular, a boy who does not know how to throw a punch and doesn’t need to; a boy accustomed to love and affection rather than violence and neglect; in short, a boy wholly unlike the child Rick once was, and who longs for a relationship with Rick that Rick hasn’t the first inkling of how to embark on. With the weight of this new boy tugging at his clothes, Rick sets out to understand his father, his son, and himself.
“The Prince of Frogtown” documents a mesmerizing journey back in time to the lush Alabama landscape of Rick’s youth, to Jacksonville’s one-hundred-year-old mill, the town’s blight and salvation; and to a troubled, charismatic hustler coming of age in its shadow, Rick’s father, a man bound to bring harm even to those he truly loves. And the book documents the unexpected corollary to it, the marvelous journey of Rick’s later life: a journey into fatherhood, and toward a child for whom he comes to feel a devotion that staggers him. With candor, insight, tremendous humor, and the remarkable gift for descriptive storytelling on which he made his name, Rick Bragg delivers a brilliant and moving rumination on the lives of boys and men, a poignant reflection on what it means to be a fatherand a son.
The Prince of Frogtown $75.00
New York, NY: Knopf (2008)
Near fine in publisher’s wrappers.
Willie Morris: An Exhaustive Annotated Bibliography and a Biography $75.00
Jefferson, NC: McFarland (2006)
Signed by the bibliographer/biographer Jack Bales and Rick Bragg who wrote the Foreword.
Fine in laminated decorated boards.
All Over But The Shoutin’ $125.00
New York, NY: Pantheon (1997)
Very good in dust jacket with some edge wear.
A haunting memoir about growing up dirt-poor in the pines of Alabama – and about moving on but never really being able to leave. It is the story of a war-haunted, hard-drinking father and a strong-willed, loving mother who struggled to protect her sons from the effects of poverty and ignorance that had constricted her own life. It is the story of the life Bragg was able to carve out for himself on the strength of his mother’s encouragement and belief. And it is the story of his attempts to both atone for and avenge the mistakes and cruelties of his past. All Over but the Shoutin’ is a gripping account of people struggling to make sense and solidity of life’s capricious promises.
Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story $75.00
New York, NY: Harper (2014) As new in dust jacket.
The greatest Southern storyteller of our time, New York Times bestselling author Rick Bragg, tracks down the greatest rock and roller of all time, Jerry Lee Lewis–and gets his own story, from the source, for the very first time.
A monumental figure on the American landscape, Jerry Lee Lewis spent his childhood raising hell in Ferriday, Louisiana, and Natchez, Mississippi; galvanized the world with hit records like “Whole Lotta Shakin Goin On” and “Great Balls of Fire,” that gave rock and roll its devil’s edge; caused riots and boycotts with his incendiary performances; nearly scuttled his career by marrying his thirteen-year-old second cousin–his third wife of seven; ran a decades-long marathon of drugs, drinking, and women; nearly met his maker, twice; suffered the deaths of two sons and two wives, and the indignity of an IRS raid that left him with nothing but the broken-down piano he started with; performed with everyone from Elvis Presley to Keith Richards to Bruce Springsteen to Kid Rock–and survived it all to be hailed as “one of the most creative and important figures in American popular culture and a paradigm of the Southern experience.”
Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story is the Killers life as he lived it, and as he shared it over two years with our greatest bard of Southern life: Rick Bragg. Rich with Lewis’s own words, framed by Bragg’s richly atmospheric narrative, this is the last great untold rock-and-roll story, come to life on the page.
Ava’s Man $50.00
New York, NY: Knopf (2001)
Near fine in dust jacket.
With the same emotional generosity and effortlessly compelling storytelling that made All Over but the Shoutin’ a beloved bestseller, Rick Bragg continues his personal history of the Deep South. Bragg’s grandfather Charlie Bundrum died before Bragg was born but remains vibrantly alive in the memories of the people who loved him. In telling Charlie’s life story, Bragg conjures up the foothills of Georgia and Alabama in the years when the roads were still dirt and wounds were still treated with brown sugar. A masterly family chronicle and a human portrait so vivid one can smell the cornbread and whiskey, Ava’s Man is unforgettable.