All souls : a family story from Southie / Michael Patrick MacDonald.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

MacDonald, Michael Patrick.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Irish Americans--Massachusetts--Boston--Biography.

Irish Americans.

Irish American families--Massachusetts--Boston--Biography.

Irish American families.

South Boston (Boston, Mass.)--Biography.

South Boston (Boston, Mass.).

Boston (Mass.)--Biography.

Boston (Mass.).

South Boston (Boston, Mass.)--Social life and customs.

South Boston (Boston, Mass.)--Social conditions.

MacDonald, Michael Patrick--Childhood and youth.

MacDonald, Michael Patrick.

McDonald family.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Place of Publication:

Boston : Beacon Press, c1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 like his Ma, a miniskirted, accordion-playing single mother who endures the deaths of four of her eleven children. Nearly suffocated by his grief and his community's code of silence, MacDonald tells his family story here with gritty but moving honesty.

Contents:

Intro

CONTENTS

ALL SOULS' NIGHT

FREEDOMS

GHETTO HEAVEN

FIGHT THE POWER

LOOKING FOR WHITEY

AUGUST

HOLY WATER

STAND-UP GUY

EXILE

JUSTICE

VIGIL

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781299561830

1299561837

9780807071984

0807071986

OCLC:

271190593