All Souls

All Souls
Author :
Publisher : Beacon Press
Total Pages : 292
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780807020531
ISBN-13 : 0807020532
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Book Synopsis All Souls by : Michael Patrick MacDonald

Download or read book All Souls written by Michael Patrick MacDonald and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2024-08-20 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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.”


All Souls Related Books

All Souls
Language: en
Pages: 292
Authors: Michael Patrick MacDonald
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-08-20 - Publisher: Beacon Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

“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
Toussaint Louverture
Language: en
Pages: 354
Authors: Madison Smartt Bell
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-06-10 - Publisher: Vintage

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

At the end of the 1700s, French Saint Domingue was the richest and most brutal colony in the Western Hemisphere. A mere twelve years later, however, Haitian reb
Easter Rising
Language: en
Pages: 265
Authors: Michael Patrick MacDonald
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-03-10 - Publisher: HMH

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

An “alternately funny and heartbreaking” memoir of leaving—and finding—home, by the author of All Souls: A Family Story from Southie (Newsweek). In All
Black Sun Rising
Language: en
Pages: 476
Authors: C.S. Friedman
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992-09-01 - Publisher: Astra Publishing House

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Over a millennium ago, Erna, a seismically active yet beautiful world was settled by colonists from far-distant Earth. But the seemingly habitable planet was fr
Master of the Crossroads
Language: en
Pages: 754
Authors: Madison Smartt Bell
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-11-09 - Publisher: Vintage

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Continuing his epic trilogy of the Haitian slave uprising, Madison Smartt Bell’s Master of the Crossroads delivers a stunning portrayal of Toussaint Louvertur