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041			_aEnglish
082			_222 _a305.89162073074461 _bPAT
100			_aPatrick, Michael,
245			_aEaster rising : _bAn Irish American coming up from under/ _cMichael Patrick; MacDonald.
260			_aBoston : _bHoughton Mifflin, _c2006.
300			_a248 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations ; _c22 cm.
520			_a MacDonald's first book told of the loss of the author's four siblings to the violence, poverty, and gangsterism of Boston's Irish-American ghetto. The question "How did you get out?" has haunted him ever since. This narrative of reinvention begins with the young MacDonald's first forays outside the soul-crushing walls of Southie's Old Colony housing project. In greater Boston and eventually New York's East Village, he becomes part of the club scene, providing a 1980s social history and a powerful glimpse of what punk music was for him: a lifesaving form of subversion and self-education. Yet family tragedies eventually draw him home again, to a devastating breakdown induced by trauma and guilt. He meets his father for the first time, as a corpse. Finally, two trips to Ireland, the first as an alienated young man, the second with his extraordinary "Ma," are healing journeys unlike any other in Irish-American literature.--From publisher description.
650			_aMacDonald, Michael Patrick -- Childhood and youth.
650			_aMcDonald family. MacDonald,
650			_aMichael Patrick.
700			_aDonald, Mac,
942			_2ddc _cBOOKS