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All Souls: A Family Story from Southie»rank: 80773by: Michael Patrick MacDonald
: :A best-selling classic in a fresh new paperback edition 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. 'All Souls is a memoir filled with desperation and despair, but there is also hope in ... |
Easter Rising: A Memoir of Roots and Rebellion»rank: 99482by: Michael Patrick MacDonald
: :In All Souls, Michael Patrick MacDonald told the story of the loss of four of his siblings to the violence, poverty, and gangsterism of Irish South Boston. In Easter Rising he tells the story of how he got out. Desperate to avoid the 'normal' life of Southie, Michael reinvents himself in the burgeoning punk rock movement and the thrilling vortex of Johnny Rotten, Mission of Burma, and the Clash.At nineteen MacDonald escapes further, to Paris and then London. Out of money, he contacts his Irish immigrant grandfather -- who offers a loan, but only if Michael will visit Ireland. It is this reluctant journey 'home' that offers MacDonald a chance at reconciliation ... |
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Easter Rising: An Irish American Coming Up from Under»rank: 309789by: Michael Patrick MacDonald
: :A powerfully redemptive story of escape from the Irish American ghetto.Michael Patrick MacDonald's All Souls: A Family Story from Southie told the story of the loss of four of his siblings to the violence, poverty, and gangsterism of Boston's Irish American ghetto. The question 'How did you get out?' has haunted MacDonald ever since. In response he has written this new book, a searingly honest story of reinvention that begins with young MacDonald's breakaway from the soul-crushing walls of Southie's Old Colony housing project and ends with two healing journeys to Ireland that are unlike anything in Irish American literature.The story begins with MacDonald's first urgent forays outside Southie, into Boston and ... |
Resurrecting Grace: Remembering Catholic Childhoods»rank: 1450920from: Beacon Press
: :Resurrecting Grace is a wildly entertaining collection of memoir about the often painful and humorous experience of growing up in the one true faith. This small confessional of personal pieces from women and men about the Church, the saints, the nuns, hidden desires, and overt transgressions—and of course the guilt, the guilt, the guilt—is one for proud Catholics, former and recovering Catholics, and Catholics by association. Editor Marilyn Sewell, a Unitarian minister who was raised in the Catholic faith, approaches her subject with a kind of reverent humor. The book is arranged thematically, around topics like 'The Sins of the Flesh,' 'Sister, May I?,' and 'Suffering and Sacrifice,' and includes pieces by ... |
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All Souls»rank: 1450920by: Michael Patrick MacDonald
: :Resurrecting Grace is a wildly entertaining collection of memoir about the often painful and humorous experience of growing up in the one true faith. This small confessional of personal pieces from women and men about the Church, the saints, the nuns, hidden desires, and overt transgressions—and of course the guilt, the guilt, the guilt—is one for proud Catholics, former and recovering Catholics, and Catholics by association. Editor Marilyn Sewell, a Unitarian minister who was raised in the Catholic faith, approaches her subject with a kind of reverent humor. The book is arranged thematically, around topics like 'The Sins of the Flesh,' 'Sister, May I?,' and 'Suffering and Sacrifice,' and includes pieces by ... |
All Souls : A Family Story from Southie»rank: 1450920by: Michael Patrick MacDonald
: :Resurrecting Grace is a wildly entertaining collection of memoir about the often painful and humorous experience of growing up in the one true faith. This small confessional of personal pieces from women and men about the Church, the saints, the nuns, hidden desires, and overt transgressions—and of course the guilt, the guilt, the guilt—is one for proud Catholics, former and recovering Catholics, and Catholics by association. Editor Marilyn Sewell, a Unitarian minister who was raised in the Catholic faith, approaches her subject with a kind of reverent humor. The book is arranged thematically, around topics like 'The Sins of the Flesh,' 'Sister, May I?,' and 'Suffering and Sacrifice,' and includes pieces by ... |
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All Souls: A Family Story From Southie»rank: 3663848by: Michael Patrick MacDonald
: :Resurrecting Grace is a wildly entertaining collection of memoir about the often painful and humorous experience of growing up in the one true faith. This small confessional of personal pieces from women and men about the Church, the saints, the nuns, hidden desires, and overt transgressions—and of course the guilt, the guilt, the guilt—is one for proud Catholics, former and recovering Catholics, and Catholics by association. Editor Marilyn Sewell, a Unitarian minister who was raised in the Catholic faith, approaches her subject with a kind of reverent humor. The book is arranged thematically, around topics like 'The Sins of the Flesh,' 'Sister, May I?,' and 'Suffering and Sacrifice,' and includes pieces by ... |
Encyclopedia of Electrochemistry, 10 Volume Set + Index (ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ELECTROCHEMISTRY)»rank: 3663848from: Wiley-VCH
: :This comprehensive reference provides all the pertinent information in the field of electrochemistry. Practical and easy-to-use, this is the first and only reference dedicated solely to this field. |
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GQ Anthology of New Fiction»rank: 3663848by: Tony; Fraser, George MacDonald; Mills, Magnus; Burnell, Mark; Bateman, Colin' Dorsey, Tim, O'Brian, Patrick; Marshall Smith, Michael; Cornwell, Bernard & Wilson, Robert Parsons
: :This comprehensive reference provides all the pertinent information in the field of electrochemistry. Practical and easy-to-use, this is the first and only reference dedicated solely to this field. |
All Souls a Family Story from Southie»rank: 4890737by: Michael Patrick MacDonald
: :This comprehensive reference provides all the pertinent information in the field of electrochemistry. Practical and easy-to-use, this is the first and only reference dedicated solely to this field. |