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Chargement... All Souls: A Family Story from Southie (1999)par Michael Patrick MacDonald
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I feel like I learned a lot, but this was a hard book to read. Unrelentingly grim memoir. ( ) All Souls is exhausting and draining and I would recommend it to anyone. MacDonald's writing is hardly poetic, which only adds to the weight of the book's realism. It reads like a brutal and bloody call for social justice in one of the most honest and least political voices imaginable. I feel like this book will haunt me for a while. MacDonald was a speaker at a UU event I attended. His story was poignant, compelling, and heart-breaking. I bought the book he had written, which provided greater detail, and found it equally compelling. To read about a family in which one-by-one the kids are killed or otherwise die due in large measure to their environment and largely beyond their control is sobering. The book was autographed by the author. Steel yourself before you begin the book, but by all means do read it. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML: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. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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