All Souls: A Family Story from Southie Contributor(s): MacDonald, Michael Patrick (Author) |
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ISBN: 0807072133 ISBN-13: 9780807072134 Publisher: Beacon Press OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2007 Annotation: A breakaway bestseller since its first printing, "All Souls" takes readers deep into MacDonalds Southie, the proudly insular neighborhood with the highest concentration of white poverty in America. MacDonald tells his family story here with gritty but moving honesty. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - History | United States - State & Local - New England (ct, Ma, Me, Nh, Ri, Vt) - Social Science | Sociology - Urban |
Dewey: B |
Physical Information: 0.82" H x 5.56" W x 8.46" (0.80 lbs) 280 pages |
Themes: - Locality - Boston-Worcester, Mass. - Geographic Orientation - Massachusetts - Cultural Region - New England |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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."--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." |