Rick BraggAuthor of All Over but the Shoutin'Also known as: Bragg Rick
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Rick Bragg has 3 upcoming events. Eagle Eye Book Shop: Rick Bragg & Sonny Brewer (December 9 at 19:00) Rick Bragg discusses They Most They Ever Had.; Sonny Brewer discusses The Widow and the Tree. Rick Bragg and Sonny Brewer talk about and sign their new books! Event location: Aurora Theatre, 128 Pike Street, Lawrenceville , GA 30045
A Cappella Books: New Books from Rick Bragg & Sonny Brewer (December 11 at 19:15) Rick Bragg reads from The Most They Ever Had.; Sonny Brewer reads from The Widow and the Tree. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Bragg (All Over But the Shoutin', Ava's Man) has a wonderful new book, The Most They Ever Had, a powerfully affecting story of a mill community in Alabama and the hardscrabble lives of the people who worked there. Sonny Brewer (The Poet of Tolstoy Park) ... (more)has a terrific new novel, The Widow and the Tree, an Alabama tale of dark deeds based on a true story. Event location: Georgia Perimeter College, Marvin C. Cole Auditorium, 551 North Indian Creek Drive, Clarkston, GA 30021
Sunriver Books & Music: Non Fiction Book Club (January 11 at 18:30) The Most They Ever Had by Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Bragg may just be the most powerful work of a stunningly gifted author. It was number one on our list of the Top Ten Non Fiction books of 2009. Rick Bragg bears witness to the lives of good, hard working people who worked the cotton mill in Jacksonville ... (more)Alabama. He allows them their dignity and price, his words honor their hard work and sacrifice, he gives them the respect they are due. He conveys their essence with power; “You need not use foul language to damn a man here. Just say a day’s work would kill him, and you tore him down to the bald nothing.” We used to value hard work in this country. The people in this book are proud people, folk who take pride in working hard to provide for their families. They don’t expect much, just a roof over their heads, a newer car every once in a while, and maybe a night at the movies. They are not anticipating easy lives or great wealth. Is it too much to expect a safe working environment and a living wage? Apparently it is. Rick Bragg has written a eulogy to the time in America where we built things rather than chased ever faster after the next deal, the easy dollar, and the fastest way to chase the money. Now a company’s parts are worth more than its whole, the jobs can be done cheaper overseas, and Wall Street needs to be kept happy. We have become a nation of financiers. A nation obsessed with flashy ball players paid mega dollars, CEO’s bringing home checks with so many zeroes it will make your head hurt, starlets wearing next to nothing, and reality shows illustrating the decline of our culture. In this era of bigger is better, more, more, more, Rick Bragg has written a book about the lives of hard working, everyday people who hold their dignity close. Rick reminds us of a set of values and a way of life that defined our country far better than the lust for the deal, and fast money culture of late. This book is a powerhouse! The Non Fiction Book Club will have a rich abundance of material for discussion.
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