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All Over But The Shoutin' by Rick Bragg

All Over But The Shoutin'

by Rick Bragg
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  • First Published:
  • Sep 1, 1997, 329 pages
  • Paperback:
  • Aug 1998, 255 pages
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Then, without any explanation of why he changed his mind and without any pretense that by talking about this war he could somehow excuse the way he lived, he told me one last story. He used his aged, ruined voice like an old man's palsied hands to pick the lock on his past, and tugged me inside.

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