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    <body><![CDATA[Unflinching look at poverty that did and can exist in our country, and the families that somehow manage to survive.  This book also made me a little homesick for my own family, and probably had a hand in us moving back to Atlanta.  Good stuff.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A wonderfully gritty biography of the author's grandfather, whom he knows only through family legend, sung beautifully in the voice of the south.  Dripping in metaphors and history, it left me whistful for my own past and thankful to be among my family as I absorbed it.  As it's sat around the house...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/472858">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was the River Read's selection at my library a couple of years ago. Not so long ago the rural South was a very different place to live and where poverty was endemic. It was hard to make money and moonshine was both a cash crop and a killer. <br/><br/>Rick Bragg tells his family's tale with ho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47066210">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really loved this book.  Bragg is a natural-born storyteller.  It's funny that this book is a biography about his grandfather, but feels so familiar.  It's a book about a man who was far but perfect but impacted his family profoundly, just like most of our grandfathers.  Also, if you know anything...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41191454">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have not read, &quot;All Over But the Shoutin',&quot; which is acclaimed by several sources as Rick Bragg's finest work. &quot;Ava's Man,&quot; (which I do read) certainly is a literary achievement. Rick Bragg is a writer in the first rank. In, &quot;Ava's Man,&quot; he devotes all his considerabl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58975596">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An engaging and surprisingly tender look at a way of life lost to the past. Bragg writes with genuine feeling about his grandfather, Charlie Bundrum, who died before he was born. Relying on stories and memories from family members, he recreates a life in snapshots. Bragg claims Charlie was a poor wh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43898742">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[With &quot;emotional generosity and effortless compelling storytelling,&quot; Rick Bragg tells the story of his grandfather, Charlie Bundrum, as he lived through the Great Depression until his death at age 51 in 1958.  It &quot;celebrates the working people of the Deep South&quot; of Georgia and Ala...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70697759">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is by far my favorite piece of family history. Rick Bragg writes a tribute to the grand daddy he never knew. His writing makes being poor during the Great Depression sound romantic because he is so good at bringing me to the scene. And with Charlie Bundrum (his grandfather), no life could ever ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60704604">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A fabulous follow-up of Bragg's autobiography (All Over But the Shoutin'), growing up in the hard-scrabble south.  This one centered around his grandfather ... and if you think Bragg had an interesting childhood and life, perhaps the sheer heredity of his forebear will explain why.<br/>A fascinatin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49453622">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the biography of Rick Bragg's grandfather, a hard-drinking, hard-fighting man who loved his family but couldn't always support them.  Very well written but I had to wonder if he was worth all the ancestor worship.  An interesting look at growing up very poor and white in the south.  He does ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58351714">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I listened to this one and really enjoyed it. An all-American story about a good man and his family, largely set in the Depression and in the South. Rick Bragg is a great writer; I read All Over But the Shoutin a number of years back and enjoyed it--probably 10 years ago and I still remember it.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47289332">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This has to be one of the best books I have ever read!!! The story of the author's grandfather who was a simple hard working, hard drinking family man. Charlie would do whatever it took to look after his family. This along with a definite set of morals. I think this hit home because I can see a fair...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53261581">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[4.5 stars.  Re-read this book for a book club.  Love this book.  Bragg is an extremely talented writer.  Second half of the book is better than first half.  And I felt like I could relate to this book as well interestingly enough.  My maternal side of the family is very similar and I was constantly ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56172862">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love the way Bragg writes. My adoration of this book comes in part from my heritage. I grew up near where much of the book takes place. Bragg writes about poor or lower middle class southerners in a way that rarely works. His character are regal and what some would call &quot;white trash&quot; at ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39015432">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Bragg again mines his poor white family and the mystery of what made his mother chose his father, the mother, Ava, a tower of strength and the father pursued by demons that would not go away no matter how much he drank.  The author comes to terms with his father and with this book finds peace. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another book read for school, but this one I enjoyed a lot. I thought that I was going to have to drag myself through it, like I had with The Member of the Wedding, but this one was surprisingly fun. It  a lot of humor and I found myself laughing a lot. Plus the story was nicely written.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a fascinating glimpse into the life of a depression-era rural family. Hunting and fishing for meat to feed the family, flour-sack dresses, nothing but cornbread for dinner, the death of a child due to no access to medical care...it made me grateful for what I have.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Loved this... he honors his grandfather, whom he never met, but heard about all of his life. It's a story of life in the deep south during the depression; how people lived, how families held together and how the strength and legend of one man carries throughout generations.]]></body>
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