All souls : a family story from Southie / Michael Patrick MacDonald.
All souls : a family story from Southie / Michael Patrick MacDonald.
By
:
MacDonald, Michael Patrick.
Publication Date
:
1999
Publication Information
:
Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press,
Physical Description
:
266 p. : ill.
Subject Term
:
Irish Americans -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Biography.
Irish American families -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Biography.
Geographic Term
:
South Boston (Boston, Mass.) -- Social life and customs.
South Boston (Boston, Mass.) -- Social conditions.
Summary
:
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.
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
9780807072127
Library | Collection | Collection | Call Number | Status |
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Stephenville (WST) (Kindale) | Adult Bio | Adult Biography | B M14 | Checked In |