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Author Bragg, Rick
Title The prince of Frogtown [sound recording] / Rick Bragg
Publisher Westminster, Md. : Books on Tape, p2008
Edition Library ed

Description 7 sound discs (ca. 69 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in
Format CD
Note Read by the author
Unabridged
Compact discs
Subject Bragg, Rick
Fathers and sons
Stepfathers
Journalists -- United States -- Biography
Working class whites -- Alabama -- Biography
Alabama -- Biography
Audiobooks.
Books on CD.
ISBN 9781415953990 :
1415953996 :
Music # 7620-CD Books on Tape

"In this final volume of the beloved American saga that began with All

Over but the Shoutin' and continued with Ava's Man, Rick Bragg closes

his circle of family stories with an unforgettable tale about fathers

and sons inspired by his own relationship with his ten-year-old

stepson. He learns, right from the start, that a man who chases a woman

with a child is like a dog who chases a car and wins. He discovers that

he is unsuited to fatherhood, unsuited to fathering this boy in

particular, a boy who does not know how to throw a punch and doesn't

need to; a boy accustomed to love and affection rather than violence

and neglect; in short, a boy wholly unlike the child Rick once was, and

who longs for a relationship with Rick that Rick hasn't the first

inkling of how to embark on. With the weight of this new boy tugging at

his clothes, Rick sets out to understand his father, his son, and

himself." "The Prince of Frogtown documents a mesmerizing journey back

in time to the lush Alabama landscape of Rick's youth, to

Jacksonville's one-hundred-year old mill, the town's blight and

salvation; and to a troubled, charismatic hustler coming of age in its

shadow, Rick's father, a man bound to bring harm even to those he truly

loves. And the book documents the unexpected corollary to it, the

marvelous journey of Rick's later life: a journey into fatherhood, and

toward a child for whom he comes to feel a devotion that staggers him.

With candor, insight, tremendous humor, and the remarkable gift for

descriptive storytelling on which he made his name, Rick Bragg delivers

a brilliant and moving rumination on the lives of boys and men, a

poignant reflection on what it means to be a father and a son."--BOOK

JACKET.