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All Souls

All Souls

All Souls Paperback / softback - 2024

by Michael Patrick MacDonald

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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
  • Author Michael Patrick MacDonald
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Beacon Press
  • Publication date 2024-08-20
  • Bookseller's Inventory # ria9780807020531_inp
  • ISBN 9780807020531 / 0807020532
  • Weight 0.77 lbs (0.35 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.52 x 5.58 x 0.78 in (21.64 x 14.17 x 1.98 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: New England
    • Demographic Orientation: Urban
    • Geographic Orientation: Massachusetts
    • Locality: Boston-Worcester, Mass.
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects McDonald family, Boston (Mass.) - Social conditions - 20th
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2024018025
  • Dewey Decimal Code B
  • Quantity available 2

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From the publisher

"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."

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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