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Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0375724443
ISBN-13: 9780375724442
Sep 2002
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
259 pages
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Language: English |
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Synopsis
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Rick Bragg was born a year after his maternal grandfather died in 1958, but resurrects him here, in this portrait of the grandfather he never knew. Researching the life of this much-loved patriarch brings Bragg to the Appalachian foothills, and back in time to a South that is no more.
| Size | | Length: | 259 pages | | Height: | 8.0 in | | Width: | 5.3 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 7.2 oz |
Industry Reviews
"Bragg delivers, with deep affection, fierce familial pride, and keen, vivid prose that's as sharp and bone-bright as a butcher's knife."
Publishers Weekly (08/06/2001)
"AVA'S MAN is almost certain to delight Bragg connoisseurs, even if the prose, like good Southern molasses, grows a tad too rich in large quantities."
Newsday (Long Island, N.Y.) - Philip Connors (09/02/2001)
"Relatively few writers have truly caught the voice of the Southern working class...The family he tells us about is his own. Often he lets the people speak for themselves, and the authenticity of the voices and the setting grab you from the first sentence...It is the rhythm, the breaks and pauses, that make Bragg's sentences work...[I]n AVA'S MAN his style works like an amphetamine. You feel alert reading him. He creates a kind of sublime testimonial...AVA'S MAN stays with you long after you put it down. Bragg's story of his grandparents makes you want to do better, to be more honest with yourself. It is hard to think of a writer who reminds us more forcefully and wonderfully of what people and families are all about."
New York Times Book Review - Robert Morgan (09/02/2001)
"[An] earthy, mischievous, yet gorgeous prose portrait....How wonderful that Bragg could do these stories, and their subject, such rich and colorful justice."
San Francisco Chronicle Book Review - Megan Harlan (09/09/2001)
"On one level the book preserves the dignity of a much-maligned region. But "Ava's Man" succeeds as art, unattached to place. You don't have to know Appalachia's history of exploitation to savor the warm biscuits Ava slips to the family's horse at the kitchen window. Mr. Bragg's hungering for truth and respect is not so easily consummated. It is a perpetual experience that resists the erasure of memory and finds newness in every turn of the past."
New York Times - Theodore Rosengarten (09/10/2001)
"Bragg, a wonderfully homey writer, like someone just having a conversation on paper over lemonade, brings a life to life, delivering immediacy to events that took place long ago. Like Frank McCourt and Willie Morris, Bragg is a writer who makes you want to tell your own stories...."
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