{"product_id":"all-souls-9780807020531","title":"All Souls","description":"\u003cb\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAll Souls\u003c\/i\u003e is the written equivalent of an Irish wake, where revelers dance and sing the dead person’s praises. In that same style, the book leavens tragedy with dashes of humor but preserves the heartbreaking details.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eA 25th anniversary edition of the National Bestselling memoir, with a new afterword from Michael Patrick MacDonald,  takes us deep into the South Boston housing projects during one of the city's most tumultuous times in history and tells the story of his family struggling the overcome the poverty, crime, addiction, and incarceration that overtook the neighborhood.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA breakaway bestseller since its first printing, \u003ci\u003eAll Souls\u003c\/i\u003e takes us deep into Michael Patrick MacDonald’s Southie, the proudly insular neighborhood with the highest concentration of white poverty in America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRocked by Whitey Bulger’s crime schemes and busing riots, MacDonald’s Southie is populated by sharply hewn characters. We meet Ma, Michael’s mini-skirted, accordian-playing, single mother who endures the deaths of four of her eleven children. And there are Michael’s older siblings Davey, sweet artist-dreamer; Kevin, child genius of scam; and Frankie, Golden Gloves boxer and neighborhood hero whose lives are high-wire acts played out in a world of poverty and pride.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNearly suffocated by his grief and his community’s code of silence, MacDonald tells his family story here with gritty but moving honesty. \u003ci\u003eAll Souls\u003c\/i\u003e is heartbreaking 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.”","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"STANDARD","offer_id":58149842583939,"sku":"9780807020531","price":18.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/8456\/3587\/files\/9780807020531.jpg?v=1780056707","url":"https:\/\/shopcomics.eu\/products\/all-souls-9780807020531","provider":"Shop Comics EU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}