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Michael Patrick MacDonald
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url
http://www.goodreads.com/profile/MichaelPatrickMacDonald
born
March 09, 1966
gender
male
place of birth
Boston, United States
genre
Biographies & Memoirs, History, Nonfiction
about this author
Michael Patrick MacDonald was born in Boston in 1966 and grew up in South Boston’s Old Colony housing project. He helped launch many of Boston’s anti violence initiatives, including gun-buyback programs and the South Boston Vigil Group which served to give voice to the survivors of violence and the drug trade in that neighborhood. He continues to work nationally with survivor families and young people in the anti-violence movement.
His first book, All Souls won the American Book Award. He is also the recipient of a New England Literary Lights Award, and the Myers Center Outstanding Book Award administered by the Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America. His second book, the highly acclaimed memoir East...more
books by Michael Patrick MacDonald
combine editionsavg rating: 4.05 | 1278 ratings | 3 distinct works
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All Souls: A Family Story from Southie (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Michael Patrick MacDonald (Goodreads author!) avg rating 4.07 — 1044 ratings — published 2000 6 editions |
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Easter Rising: An Irish American Coming Up from Under (Hardcover) by Michael Patrick MacDonald (Goodreads author!) avg rating 3.73 — 128 ratings — published 2006 2 editions |
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All Souls: A Family Story from Southie (Audio Cassette) by Michael Patrick MacDonald (Goodreads author!) avg rating 0.00 — 0 ratings — published 2000 |
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quotes by Michael Patrick MacDonald
"I remember hating having to cross over the Broadway Bridge again, having to leave the peninsula neighborhood and go back to my apartment in downtown Boston."
— Michael Patrick MacDonald (All Souls: A Family Story from Southie (Ballantine Reader's Circle))
— Michael Patrick MacDonald (All Souls: A Family Story from Southie (Ballantine Reader's Circle))
"Whenever they spoke to me, they spoke at normal speed. But mostly they talked to each other and their words came out so fast that I couldn't make out what they were saying. But I enjoyed listening, because every sentence had that rhythm and ended with the uplifted note of a question and an exclamation of certainty. They sounded like they were sure of whatever they were saying, like no one could tell them any different. Their sentences twisted and turned like the roads I'd traveled from Dublin to Donegal. I listened mesmerized, no longer trying to make sense of it all."
— Michael Patrick MacDonald (Easter Rising: An Irish American Coming Up from Under)
— Michael Patrick MacDonald (Easter Rising: An Irish American Coming Up from Under)
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