The Most They Ever Had
By Rick Bragg
- Release Date: 2009-10-01
- Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Description
The story of the mill people of Jacksonville, Alabama. The mill was here before the automobile, before the flying machine, and they served it even as it filled their lungs with lint and shortened their lives. In return, it let them live in stiff-necked dignity in the hills of their fathers. So, when death did come, no one had to ship their bodies home on a train. This is a mill story; not of bricks, steel, and cotton, but of the people who suffered it to live.
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5By JulierozThis is the first book I've read by Rick Bragg, ad I hope to read many more. I lived in Northern Alabama for a few years, and he's captured the best of the people who live there. His writings like Hemingway in his talent for using only a few words to convey a very specific, complete picture in the reader's mind. This is a powerful book.