Ava's Man

Bragg, Rick; Rick Bragg

ISBN 10: 0375431209 / ISBN 13: 9780375431203

Published by Random House Large Print/A Division of Random House, Inc., New York, 2001

About this Item

385 pp. Stated first printing of the first large print edition! An excellent, spotlessly clean copy and dust jacket! Clean, fresh, sharp, tight, essentially and virtually flawless copy and dust jacket with crisp pages, clean text, and very light shelf wear. A very small stain on fore-edge.

Seller Inventory # 4iEc0001

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ava's Man
• Publisher: Random House Large Print/A Division of Random House, Inc., New York
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0375431209
• ISBN 13: 9780375431203
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Carol Devine Carson (Jacket Design)
• Edition: 1st Large Print Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Like New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Like New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Memoirs, Literary Studies

About this title

Synopsis

The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and 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.

Rick Bragg brings his astonishing gift for storytelling to the tale of his grandfather, a man who kept his family one step ahead of poverty and starvation during the decade of the Great Depression. Charlie Bundrum was a roofer, a carpenter, a bootlegger, and a fisherman. 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.

A portrait of an ineradicable, memorable figure in a singular time, a moving reflection on home and family and on the author's own connection to a lost stretch of dirt road along the Alabama-Georgia border—AVA'S MAN is Rick Bragg at his stunning best.

About the Author

Rick Bragg was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in 1996. A national correspondent for the New York Times, he lives in Miami, Florida.