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PublisherBeacon Press

ISBN-100807020532

ISBN-139780807020531

eBay Product ID (ePID)4064174947

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Book TitleAll Souls : a Family Story from Southie

Number of Pages288 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicCultural Heritage, United States / State & Local / New England (Ct, mA, Me, NH, Ri, VT), Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), Sociology / Urban

Publication Year2024

GenreSocial Science, Biography & Autobiography, History

AuthorMichael Patrick Macdonald

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight12 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2024-018025

Reviews[A] rare and compelling book . . . Highly passionate.--Liam Ford, Chicago Tribune "His anecdotes have the searing power of a redeemed sinner's fiery sermon. His swift, conversational style sweeps you into his anger and sorrow. He is a born rabble-rouser whose emotional power numbs the reader's reason."--Charles Carberry, USA Today " All Souls is a memoir filled with desperation and despair, but there is also hope in it . . . MacDonald's discovery of his vocation in neighborhood activism is a refreshing change from most memoirs, which so often . . . are largely concerned with describing an ascent to celebrityhood." --Julian Moynahan, New York Review of Books "Michael Patrick MacDonald takes us on a heartbreaking tour of his South Boston family." --Frank McCourt, Irish America Magazine "An incendiary, moving book that startles on nearly every page . . . MacDonald's nimble prose and detailed recall of grim times long past make for luminous reading; his hard-won conception of how ghettoized poverty spawns localized violence, and the dignity he brings to lives snuffed out in chaos, gives All Souls a moral urgency usually lacking in current memoir or crime prose. A remarkable work." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review " All Souls leavens tragedy with dashes of humor but preserves the heartbreaking details."--Brent Staples, New York Times Book Review "If you were charmed by Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes but wished at times the author would have got out of the way of his own beguiling style, try All Souls: A Family Story from Southie, Michael Patrick MacDonald's guileless and powerful memoir of precarious life and early death in Boston's Irish ghetto."--R. Z. Sheppard, Time "A must read . . . All Souls is poised to become one of the most significant Irish American books of the era."-- Irish Edition "An honest, piercing tale--once you read it, you will never look at our country the same way."-- Geoffrey Canada, author of Fist Stick Knife Gun "MacDonald has a gift for narrative, an eye for social detail, and a voice of earned authenticity."--Jack Beatty, Author of The Rascal

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal974.4/61/043/092

Table Of ContentAuthor's Note 1. All Souls' Night 2. Freedoms 3. Ghetto Heaven 4. Fight the Power 5. Looking for Whitey 6. August 7. Holy Water 8. Stand-Up Guy 9. Exile 10. Justice 11. Vigil Afterword Acknowledgments

Synopsis" All Souls is the written equivalent of an Irish wake, where revelers dance and sing the dead person's praises. In that same style, the book leavens tragedy with dashes of humor but preserves the heartbreaking details."- TheNew York Times Book Review A 25th anniversary edition of the National Bestselling memoir, with a new afterword from Michael Patrick MacDonald, takes us deep into the South Boston housing projects during one of the city's most tumultuous times in history and tells the story of his family struggling the overcome the poverty, crime, addiction, and incarceration that overtook the neighborhood. A breakaway bestseller since its first printing, All Souls takes us deep into Michael Patrick MacDonald's Southie, the proudly insular neighborhood with the highest concentration of white poverty in America. Rocked by Whitey Bulger's crime schemes and busing riots, MacDonald's Southie is populated by sharply hewn characters. We meet Ma, Michael's mini-skirted, accordian-playing, single mother who endures the deaths of four of her eleven children. And there are Michael's older siblings Davey, sweet artist-dreamer; Kevin, child genius of scam; and Frankie, Golden Gloves boxer and neighborhood hero whose lives are high-wire acts played out in a world of poverty and pride. Nearly suffocated by his grief and his community's code of silence, MacDonald tells his family story here with gritty but moving honesty. All Souls is heartbreaking testimony to lives lost too early, and the story of how a place so filled with pain could still be "the best place in the world.", "All Souls is the written equivalent of an Irish wake, where revelers dance and sing the dead person's praises. In that same style, the book leavens tragedy with dashes of humor but preserves the heartbreaking details." -- Brent Staples, New York Times Book Review. The U.S. Bestselling memoir that takes us deep into the South Boston housing projects during one of the city's most tumultuous times in history and tells the story of his family struggling the overcome the poverty, crime, addiction, and incarceration that overtook the neighbourhood., " All Souls is the written equivalent of an Irish wake, where revelers dance and sing the dead person's praises. In that same style, the book leavens tragedy with dashes of humor but preserves the heartbreaking details."-- The New York Times Book Review A 25th anniversary edition of the National Bestselling memoir, with a new afterword from Michael Patrick MacDonald, takes us deep into the South Boston housing projects during one of the city's most tumultuous times in history and tells the story of his family struggling the overcome the poverty, crime, addiction, and incarceration that overtook the neighborhood. A breakaway bestseller since its first printing, All Souls takes us deep into Michael Patrick MacDonald's Southie, the proudly insular neighborhood with the highest concentration of white poverty in America. Rocked by Whitey Bulger's crime schemes and busing riots, MacDonald's Southie is populated by sharply hewn characters. We meet Ma, Michael's mini-skirted, accordian-playing, single mother who endures the deaths of four of her eleven children. And there are Michael's older siblings Davey, sweet artist-dreamer; Kevin, child genius of scam; and Frankie, Golden Gloves boxer and neighborhood hero whose lives are high-wire acts played out in a world of poverty and pride. Nearly suffocated by his grief and his community's code of silence, MacDonald tells his family story here with gritty but moving honesty. All Souls is heartbreaking testimony to lives lost too early, and the story of how a place so filled with pain could still be "the best place in the world."

LC Classification NumberF73.68.S7M33 2024