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 enlarge | Author: Rick Bragg
Publisher: Knopf
Category: Book
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Rating:  31 reviews
Sales Rank: 12379
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.5 x 1.3
ISBN: 140004040X
Dewey Decimal Number: 976.1063092
EAN: 9781400040407
ASIN: 140004040X
Publication Date: May 6, 2008
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 The Prince of Frogtown August 18, 2008
Absolutely Rick Bragg's best! I hated for the book to end. Holds attention throughout and very well put together. Could relate to several things in story. Must read!!
Like listenin' to a neighbor August 15, 2008
I read All Over But the Shoutin' years ago and recommended it to many people, including my students. I thought it was a great book, and for me, living in northwest Georgia, it was kind of like reading about things that happened in your back yard. I'm just a little older than Bragg, and I grew up in the country,too, but I felt naive and sheltered reading about how Bragg grew up less than a 100 miles from me. Like "Shoutin," The Prince of Frogtown is a "must read" for a Southerner. When I stumbled across it, I first saw the Audio book and bought it without even looking for a print copy. It is read by Bragg himself, and I loved that. It was like listening to one of my neighbors.
 Another fine view into fathers and sons August 15, 2008
I am a huge fan of Rick Bragg's previous autobiographical books, It's All Over But the Shoutin' and Ava's Man. He writes was an amazing voice that puts the reader right there in the middle of the story and manages to convey respect for his hardscrabble ancestors. In The Prince of Frogtown, Bragg revisits the story of his father who he dismissed in Shoutin' as an abusive alcoholic who abandoned his family. Bragg was forced to take another look at his father after marrying a woman with a 10-year-old son. The son is protected and soft compared to Bragg's rough upbringing, and at first Bragg has a hard time relating to this child and then wants to toughen him up. Chapters alternate between a biography of Bragg's father and Bragg's growing relationship with "the boy". He never excuses his father's bad behavior, but he comes to understand him and himself better. The chapters about "the boy" are sharp insights into Bragg as a man, and as they grow closer, both are changed by the relationship. It's a terrific book about fathers and sons.
Who wrote this book? August 4, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I love Ricky Bragg. While technically quintessential Bragg, The Prince of Frogtown did not tiptoe intimately through my soul as did the previous two books. Great artists' talent often pours forth from personal agony. Who wrote this book? Perhaps it was a happier Ricky Bragg. I sure hope so!
Selfishly awaiting the novel.
Sue in Alabama.
Wonderful! July 19, 2008
This is a continuation of All Over But the Shoutin' and Ava's Man. If you liked these, you will like this book about his father. He doesn't say much about his father in the first two books because his father was not in his life much while growing up but now you get to see the good and mostly bad about him. Rick Bragg is a terrific writer and I will read anything he writes.
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