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All Souls: A Family Story from Southie [Englisch] [Gebundene Ausgabe]

Michael Patrick MacDonald
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  • Gebundene Ausgabe: 288 Seiten
  • Verlag: Beacon Press; Auflage: Thumb Indexed (25. September 1999)
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISBN-10: 0807072125
  • ISBN-13: 978-0807072127
  • Größe und/oder Gewicht: 22,3 x 14,7 x 2,5 cm
  • Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.7 von 5 Sternen  Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (86 Kundenrezensionen)
  • Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.230.535 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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"The best place in the world." That's what South Boston people

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An incendiary, moving book that startles on nearly every page. The notorious anti-busing riots of 1974 forever altered the insular working-class Irish community of South Boston, branding it indelibly as a dangerous, racist enclave. Anti-violence activist MacDonald grew up there and lost four out of eight siblings to violence in those dark times; his debut assesses both his family history, and related secret tales of class strife, bigotry, corruption, and vanished lives. MacDonald utilizes the classically Irish viewpoint of the stoic child to re-create a harsh arena of a 1970s ghetto and urban poverty. His single Ma felt blessed when a local politician secured her entrance to the majority-Irish Old Colony project, the best place in the world''; once there, the MacDonalds had to prove their mettle against delinquents with shotguns, thus acquiring the patina of craziness necessary for survival. At first, the nuances of color seemed minor against a vividly rendered backdrop of economic difficulty and the depraved mainstreaming of hard drugs and street crime. Then came the riots; MacDonalds surefooted (neither hardened nor sentimental) narrative takes us through the years of malaise and violence that followed, as politically connected gangsters, such as the notorious Whitey Bulger, expanded the areas drug trade while violently enforcing a macho myth of silent Southie unity, itself built on the long-burnished notion that the white community was somehow different from such similarly working-class, embattled black areas as Roxbury. This explication of how such phenomena of white class-consciousness encouraged the wholesale deterioration of his neighborhood and contributed to the demise of some 250 young people is a devastating cultural indictment. MacDonalds nimble prose and detailed recall of grim times long past make for luminous reading; his hard-won conception of how ghettoized poverty spawns localized violence, and the dignity he brings to lives snuffed out in chaos, gives All Souls a moral urgency usually lacking in current memoir or crime prose. A remarkable work. (Author tour) -- Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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It took me only 2 days to complete this revelation written by Michael Patrick MacDonald. I don't quite know what to say. It was bold and profound, to say the least. Michael Patrick MacDonald is a man of courage (for writing this book while still residing in Southie)and substance (because he has become a gifted & reflective artist in spite of a childhood and youth filled with violence,deprivation, & loss). This African-American woman would like to thank Mr. MacDonald for revealing to the world his life. This book, Mr. MacDonald, will benefit countless African-American & Latino youth who continue to suffer in similarly brutal environments. Believe me -- it helps to realize that you're not alone. Your recent successes both with your book and your activist programs are fiery testimonials to your pride and strength of character. I admire you. Keep fighting the good fight!
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Must read 28. Juli 2000
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Such a raw yet redemptive work - and so revealing of the powers that were. An important read.
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"tis what "'Tis" wasn't 22. Juli 2000
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I've been away from Boston for thirty years and this book was a revelation of the pain that the Irish Americans have suffered while being ignored as "Third Worlders" We aren't all Kennedys and didn't all go to Harvard and MacDonald's book conveys a pain greater than Angela's Ashes. Recommended to me by an African-American friend in Boston, it's an eye-opener to everyone who doesn't understand the Southie hidden from the national media. Don't miss this one.
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"tis what "'Tis" wasn't
I've been away from Boston for thirty years and this book was a revelation of the pain that the Irish Americans have suffered while being ignored as "Third Worlders" We... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 22. Juli 2000 von bob morgan
Terrific book..I hope everyone reads it!
This piece of literature has it all: it's moving, riveting, gripping, and revealing; and it's very well written. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 7. Juli 2000 von john larrabee
An excellent, if somewhat infuriating saga...
Forced busing was happening as I was preparing to graduate high school in Cambridge. At that time the talk was that the people of Southie were just racists, and that's what all... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 5. Juli 2000 veröffentlicht
hitting home
Wow! I just finished reading the book...it brought a tear to my eye. As an African-American woman four years older tham Michael, born in the same housing project as he... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 29. Juni 2000 von saundra thomas
Profoundly moving and enlightening
My 13 year old and I read and reread _All Souls_. It started a conversation about adversity, resilence, strength, crime, race, poverty,and family life that does not seem to end.
Veröffentlicht am 9. Juni 2000 von Margaret L.
Academically Speaking
As a college professor, I find this book to fit perfectly in the realm of academia. It exemplies social deviance/elite deviance, social problems and juvenile delinquency. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 5. Juni 2000 von Donna Holland Barnes
My worst day would have been his best...
Talk about a quick read....I am about the same age as the Michael MacDonald and Irish Catholic as well. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 30. Mai 2000 veröffentlicht
My worst day would have been his best...
Talk about a quick read....I am about the same age as the Michael MacDonald and Irish Catholic as well. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 30. Mai 2000 veröffentlicht
A Must Read
A wonderfully written book and a fabulous story told. Mr. MacDonald unfolds the saga of his family experience in a way that allows the reader to feel his pain and subsequently... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 30. Mai 2000 veröffentlicht
A healing story
I think this book is about a deep transformation coming from a place of truth, love and real experience of the author's soul. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 28. Mai 2000 veröffentlicht
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