All souls : a family story from Southie
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Published
Boston : Beacon Press, [1999].
Status
Columbia Pike - Adult Nonfiction
974.46 MACDO
1 available
974.46 MACDO
1 available
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Published
Boston : Beacon Press, [1999].
Format
Book
Physical Desc
266 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Notes
Description
"The anti-busing riots of 1974 forever changed Southie, Boston's working class Irish community, branding it as a violent, racist enclave. Michael Patrick MacDonald grew up in Southie's Old Colony housing project. He describes the way this world within a world felt to the troubled yet keenly gifted observer he was even as a child: "[as if] we were protected, as if the whole neighborhood was watching our backs for threats, watching for all the enemies we could never really define.""--Jacket.
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"But the threats - poverty, drugs, a shadowy gangster world - were real. MacDonald lost four of his siblings to violence and poverty. All Souls is heart-breaking 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.""--Jacket.
Subjects
LC Subjects
Boston (Mass.) -- Biography.
Boston (Mass.) -- Social conditions.
Boston (Mass.) -- Social life and customs.
Irish American families -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
Irish Americans -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Biography.
MacDonald, Michael Patrick -- Childhood and youth.
McDonald family.
South Boston (Boston, Mass.) -- Biography.
South Boston (Boston, Mass.) -- Social conditions.
South Boston (Boston, Mass.) -- Social life and customs.
Boston (Mass.) -- Social conditions.
Boston (Mass.) -- Social life and customs.
Irish American families -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
Irish Americans -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Biography.
MacDonald, Michael Patrick -- Childhood and youth.
McDonald family.
South Boston (Boston, Mass.) -- Biography.
South Boston (Boston, Mass.) -- Social conditions.
South Boston (Boston, Mass.) -- Social life and customs.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
MacDonald, M. P. (1999). All souls: a family story from Southie . Beacon Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)MacDonald, Michael Patrick. 1999. All Souls: A Family Story From Southie. Beacon Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)MacDonald, Michael Patrick. All Souls: A Family Story From Southie Beacon Press, 1999.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)MacDonald, Michael Patrick. All Souls: A Family Story From Southie Beacon Press, 1999.
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