Somebody Told Me: The Newspaper Stories of Rick Bragg

Somebody Told Me: The Newspaper Stories of Rick BraggWith his bestselling All Over but the Shoutin', Rick Bragg gave us memorable stories of his own childhood. In Somebody Told Me, he offers the best of his work as a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist writing the remarkable stories of others. For twenty years, Bragg has focused his efforts on the common man. So while some of these stories are about people whose names we know such as Susan Smith, the South Carolina mother who drowned her two sons most are

With his bestselling All Over but the Shoutin', Rick Bragg gave us memorable stories of his own childhood. In Somebody Told Me, he offers the best of his work as a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist writing the remarkable stories of others.

For twenty years, Bragg has focused his efforts on the common man. So while some of these stories are about people whose names we know-such as Susan Smith, the South Carolina mother who drowned her two sons-most are people whose names we've never heard, people who have survived tornadoes and swamps, racism and bombs. In incisive, unadorned prose that is nonetheless strikingly beautiful, these pieces rise above journalism to become literature and show the triumph of the human spirit.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 08/28/2001
ISBN: 9780375725524
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.58w x 0.68d

Review Citations: Entertainment Weekly 09/14/2001 pg. 85
Kliatt 01/01/2002 pg. 22