Michael Patrick Macdonald

Easter Rising

A Memoir of Roots and Rebellion

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An alternately funny and heartbreaking memoir of leaving-and finding-home, by the author of All Souls: A Family Story from Southie (Newsweek). 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 first reinvents himself in the burgeoning punk rock movement and the thrilling vortex of Johnny Rotten, Mission of Burma, and the Clash. At nineteen, he escapes further, to Paris and then London. Finally, out of money, he contacts his Iri… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-547-52723-9
EAN: 9780547527239
Produktnummer: 31911640
Verlag: Mariner Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 256 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 2'699 KB

Über den Autor

Michael Patrick MacDonald helped launch Boston's successful gun-buyback program and founded the South Boston Vigil Group. He has won the American Book Award, a New England Literary Lights Award, and the Myers Center Outstanding Book Award. His published works include All Souls and his highly acclaimed memoir, Easter Rising.