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All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
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All Souls: A Family Story from Southie Paperback - 2007

by MacDonald, Michael Patrick

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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.

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  • Title All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
  • Author MacDonald, Michael Patrick
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition UsedGood
  • Pages 280
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Beacon Press, U.S.A.
  • Date 2007-11-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 31UI56003QV4_ns
  • ISBN 9780807072134 / 0807072133
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.46 x 5.56 x 0.82 in (21.49 x 14.12 x 2.08 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: New England
    • Demographic Orientation: Urban
    • Geographic Orientation: Massachusetts
    • Locality: Boston-Worcester, Mass.
  • Library of Congress subjects Boston (Mass.), South Boston (Boston, Mass.) - Social
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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"I remember hating having to cross over the Broadway Bridge again, having to leave the peninsula neighborhood and go back to my apartment in downtown Boston."

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Media 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

"MacDonald has a gift for narrative, an eye for social detail, and a voice of earned authenticity."—Jack Beatty, Author of The Rascal

About the author

Michael Patrick MacDonald grew up in South Boston's Old Colony housing project. After losing four siblings and seeing his generation decimated by poverty, crime, and addiction, he became a leading Boston activist, helping launch many antiviolence initiatives, including gun-buyback programs. He continues to work for social change nationally, collaborating with survivor families and young people.

MacDonald won the American Book Award in 2000 and has written numerous essays for the Boston Globe Op-Ed Page. His national bestseller, All Souls, and his follow-up, Easter Rising: A Memoir of Roots and Rebellion have been adopted by university curriculums across the country.

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