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9780807072127

All Souls

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  • ISBN13:

    9780807072127

  • ISBN10:

    0807072125

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1999-09-25
  • Publisher: Beacon Press

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This searing coming-of-age memoir is set in "Southie" where gangster Whitey Bulger runs the drug business, and class and racial violence erupt in response to forced busing in the 1970s. MacDonald loses four siblings to drugs, poverty, and violence, and eventually attempts to transcend his grief as he becomes an activist in the Southie he can't help but love. "If you were charmed by Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes . . . try All Souls, Michael Patrick Mac-Donald's guileless and powerful memoir of precarious life and early death in Boston's Irish ghetto. . . . With its probes of crooked politicians, bad cops, and layers of racism, All Souls easily breaks its regional and ethnic boundaries." -R. Z. Sheppard, Time

Author Biography

Michael Patrick MacDonald helped launch Boston’s successful gun-buyback program and is founder of the South Boston Vigil Group. He has won the American Book Award, a New England Literary Lights Award, and the Myers Center Outstanding Book Award administered by the Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America. His second book, the highly acclaimed memoir Easter Rising, was published in 2006, and will be available in paperback from Houghton Mifflin in March, 2008. He is currently writing the screenplay of All Souls for director Ron Shelton. MacDonald lives in Brooklyn.

Table of Contents

All Souls' Night
1(15)
Freedoms
16(34)
Ghetto Heaven
50(29)
Fight the Power
79(28)
Looking for Whitey
107(28)
August
135(21)
Holy Water
156(17)
Stand-Up Guy
173(26)
Exile
199(24)
Justice
223(31)
Vigil
254(11)
Acknowledgments 265

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