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All Souls: A Family Story from Southie MacDonald, Michael Patrick
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780807072134
- Book Title
- All Souls : a Family Story from Southie
- Item Length
- 8.5in
- Publisher
- Beacon Press
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Format
- Perfect
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, History, Social Science
- Topic
- United States / State & Local / New England (Ct, mA, Me, NH, Ri, VT), Personal Memoirs, General, Customs & Traditions, Sociology / Urban
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 10.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 280 Pages
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A NATIONAL BESTSELLER " 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 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."
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Beacon Press
ISBN-10
0807072133
ISBN-13
9780807072134
eBay Product ID (ePID)
60197255
Product Key Features
Book Title
All Souls : a Family Story from Southie
Format
Perfect
Language
English
Topic
United States / State & Local / New England (Ct, mA, Me, NH, Ri, VT), Personal Memoirs, General, Customs & Traditions, Sociology / Urban
Publication Year
2007
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
280 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
10.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
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, [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 "MacDonald has a gift for narrative, an eye for social detail, and a voice of earned authenticity."--Jack Beatty, Author of The Rascal, "[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 "MacDonald has a gift for narrative, an eye for social detail, and a voice of earned authenticity." -Jack Beatty, Author of The Rascal " This memoir shows the bigger picture of South Boston's working class and crime worlds through the family saga of MacDonald and his many siblings." - Boston Globe, "His anecdotes have the searing power of a redeemed sinner's �ery sermon. His swift, conversational style sweeps you into his anger and sorrow." --Charles Carberry, & " His anecdotes have the searing power of a redeemed sinner& #39; s & amp; fiery sermon. His swift, conversational style sweeps you into his anger and sorrow.& " & - Charles Carberry, "[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 "MacDonald has a gift for narrative, an eye for social detail, and a voice of earned authenticity." -Jack Beatty, Author of The Rascal, "His anecdotes have the searing power of a redeemed sinner's Fiery sermon. His swift, conversational style sweeps you into his anger and sorrow." --Charles Carberry USA Today, [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 "MacDonald has a gift for narrative, an eye for social detail, and a voice of earned authenticity."-Jack Beatty, Author of The Rascal
Copyright Date
2007
Dewey Decimal
974.4/61/043/092
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
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