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This autobiography recounts how Bragg, brought up in poverty in the deep South, ended up a Pulitzer Prize-winning report for the "New York Times". The book is an account of growing up in an impoverished, ragged white Alabama family - poor to the point that even "nigras" would bring them food. He writes of his deprived yet hilarious childhood in the 1960s, of his uncomplaining mother's back-breaking labour, and of his father's poisonous behaviour towards her and how he himself managed to escape the treadmill of hopelessness that his two brothers walk today.
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Redbirds : Memories of the South
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Penguin Random House, 1999
ISBN 10: 1860463975
ISBN 13: 9781860463976
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Condition: Bueno. : En 'Redbirds: Memories from the South', Rick Bragg comparte sus recuerdos del sur de Estados Unidos. Esta edición de bolsillo, publicada en mayo de 1999, ofrece una mirada íntima a la vida del autor y su entorno. Con 352 páginas, Bragg explora temas de biografía, historia social y experiencias personales en el contexto estadounidense. EAN: 9781860463976 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Literatura y Ficción Título: Redbirds Autor: Rick Bragg Editorial: Harvill Pr Idioma: en Páginas: 352 Formato: tapa blanda. Seller Inventory # Happ-2026-01-14-3cdd5c31
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Redbirds
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Vintage Publishing, United Kingdom, London, 1999
ISBN 10: 1860463975
ISBN 13: 9781860463976
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Redbirds is Rick Bragg s poignant account of growing up in an impoverished white Alabama family poor to the point that even nigras would bring them food. Bragg was born the son of a violent, hard-drinking father and a strong-willed, loving mother who did all she could to protect her sons from the effects of the poverty and ignorance that had constricted her life. His father, after years of abusing both his wife and his sons, abandoned the family when Bragg was still a young child. As he grew up, Rick Bragg was a wild teenager who seemed destined to follow in his father s footsteps but a journalism class revealed a talent that was to allow him to avoid this fate. Redbirds vividly evokes his deprived yet exhilarating childhood, his mother s strength of character and his own escape from the treadmill of hopelessness that his two brothers still walk today. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR001378616
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