Ava's man, Rick Bragg
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Ava's man, Rick Bragg
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eng
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individual biography
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non fiction
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Ava's man
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Rick Bragg
Summary
"The ... 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 .... 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.... Rick Bragg has built a soaring monument to the grandfather he never knew ..."--Front flap of jacket
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