Description:
UsedGood. The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact (including the dust cover, if applicable). Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Ava's Man Paperback - 2002
by Rick Bragg
The national bestseller, now in paperback, continues Rick Bragg's personal history of the Deep South in this masterly family chronicle so vivid one can smell the cornbread and whiskey. "As toothsome as a catfish supper. Bragg is every bit the equal of . . . Harper Lee and Truman Capote."--"People." A "New York Times" Notable Book. 1 photo.
Summary
The Pulitzer Prize--winning author of All Over but the Shoutin' continues his personal history of the Deep South with an evocation of his mother's childhood in the Appalachian foothills during the Great Depression, and the magnificent story of the man who raised her.Charlie Bundrum was a roofer, a carpenter, a whiskey-maker, a fisherman who knew every inch of the Coosa River, made boats out of car hoods and knew how to pack a wound with brown sugar to stop the blood. He could not read, but he asked his wife, Ava, to read him the paper every day so he would not be ignorant. He was a man who took giant steps in rundown boots, a true hero whom history would otherwise have overlooked.In the decade of the Great Depression, Charlie moved his family twenty-one times, keeping seven children one step ahead of the poverty and starvation that threatened them from every side. He worked at the steel mill when the steel was rolling, or for a side of bacon or a bushel of peaches when it wasn't. He paid the doctor who delivered his fourth daughter, Margaret--Bragg's mother--with a jar of whiskey. He understood the finer points of the law as it applied to poor people and drinking men; he was a banjo player and a buck dancer who worked off fines when life got a little sideways, and he sang when he was drunk, where other men fought or cussed. He had a talent for living. His children revered him. When he died, cars lined the blacktop for more than a mile.Rick Bragg has built a soaring monument to the grandfather he never knew--a father who stood by his family in hard times and left a backwoods legend behind--in a book that blazes with his love for his family, and for a particular stretch of dirt road along the Alabama-Georgia border. A powerfully intimate piece of American history as it was experienced by the working people of the Deep South, a glorious record of a life of character, tenacity and indomitable joy and an unforgettable tribute to a vanishing culture, Ava's Man is Rick Bragg at his stunning best.
From the publisher
First line
HASH(0x10abae40)
From the jacket flap
With the same emotional generosity and effortlessly compelling storytelling that made "All Over But the Shoutin' a national bestseller, Rick Bragg continues his personal history of the Deep South. This time he's writing about his grandfather Charlie Bundrum, a man who died before Bragg was born but left an indelible imprint on the people who loved him. Drawing on their memories, Bragg reconstructs the life of an unlettered roofer who kept food on his family's table through the worst of the Great Depression; a moonshiner who drank exactly one pint for every gallon he sold; an unregenerate brawler, who could sit for hours with a baby in the crook of his arm.
In telling Charlie's story, Bragg conjures up the backwoods hamlets of Georgia and Alabama in the years when the roads were still dirt and real men never cussed in front of ladies. A masterly family chronicle and a human portrait so vivid you can smell the cornbread and whiskey, Ava's Man is unforgettable.
In telling Charlie's story, Bragg conjures up the backwoods hamlets of Georgia and Alabama in the years when the roads were still dirt and real men never cussed in front of ladies. A masterly family chronicle and a human portrait so vivid you can smell the cornbread and whiskey, Ava's Man is unforgettable.
Details
- Title Ava's Man
- Author Rick Bragg
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1St Edition
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York
- Date August 13, 2002
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- ISBN 9780375724442 / 0375724443
- Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.6 in (20.07 x 12.95 x 1.52 cm)
- Reading level 1150
-
Themes
- Cultural Region: South
- Library of Congress subjects Biography, Southern States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001032677
- Dewey Decimal Code B
Excerpt
Media reviews
Citations
- BookPage, 09/01/2002, Page 28
- New York Times, 10/27/2002, Page 28
About the author
More Copies for Sale
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Ava's Man
by Bragg, Rick
- Used
- Condition
- UsedGood
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780375724442 / 0375724443
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Seller
-
Imperial, Missouri, United States
- Item Price
-
€4.48FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Item Price
€4.48
FREE shipping to USA
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Ava's Man
by Bragg, Rick
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780375724442 / 0375724443
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Kingwood, Texas, United States
- Item Price
-
€4.87FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
Vintage, 2002-08-13. Paperback. Good. 5x0x7.
Item Price
€4.87
FREE shipping to USA
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Ava's Man
by Bragg, Rick
- Used
- Condition
- UsedGood
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780375724442 / 0375724443
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Interlochen, Michigan, United States
- Item Price
-
€5.67FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
UsedGood. The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact (including the dust cover, if applicable). Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.
Item Price
€5.67
FREE shipping to USA
Ava's Man
by Bragg, Rick
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780375724442 / 0375724443
- Quantity Available
- 4
- Seller
-
Seattle, Washington, United States
- Item Price
-
€5.67FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
Vintage, 2002. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
Item Price
€5.67
FREE shipping to USA
Ava's Man
by Bragg, Rick
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780375724442 / 0375724443
- Quantity Available
- 3
- Seller
-
Seattle, Washington, United States
- Item Price
-
€5.67FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
Vintage, 2002. Paperback. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
Item Price
€5.67
FREE shipping to USA
Ava's Man
by Bragg, Rick
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780375724442 / 0375724443
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Seller
-
Seattle, Washington, United States
- Item Price
-
€5.67FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
Vintage, 2002. Paperback. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
Item Price
€5.67
FREE shipping to USA
Ava's Man
by Bragg, Rick
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780375724442 / 0375724443
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Seattle, Washington, United States
- Item Price
-
€5.67FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
Vintage, 2002. Paperback. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
Item Price
€5.67
FREE shipping to USA
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Ava's Man
by Bragg, Rick
- Used
- Condition
- UsedGood
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780375724442 / 0375724443
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Rotterdam , New York, United States
- Item Price
-
€5.85FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
UsedGood. Shows minimal wear such as frayed or folded edges, minor rips and tears, and/or slightly worn binding. May have stickers and/or contain inscription on title page. No observed missing pages.
Item Price
€5.85
FREE shipping to USA
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Ava's Man
by Bragg, Rick
- Used
- Condition
- Used - Good
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780375724442 / 0375724443
- Quantity Available
- 3
- Seller
-
Mishawaka, Indiana, United States
- Item Price
-
€6.71FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Item Price
€6.71
FREE shipping to USA
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Ava's Man
by Bragg, Rick
- Used
- Condition
- Used - Good
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780375724442 / 0375724443
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Seller
-
Reno, Nevada, United States
- Item Price
-
€6.71FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Item Price
€6.71
FREE shipping to USA