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...were charmed by Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes but wished at times that the author would have got out of the way of his own beguiling style, try All Souls: A Family Story from Southie (Beacon Press; 288 pages; $24), Michael Patrick MacDonald's guileless and powerful memoir of precarious life and early death in Boston's Irish ghetto...
...MacDonald, 33, grew up and still lives in South Boston, a legendary ethnic enclave that contains one of the country's highest concentrations of white poverty. The distinction is not appreciated by Southie residents, who bristle at being lumped with the black and Hispanic underclass...
...MacDonald's jolting account illustrates, all share the same problems and are familiar with social workers, fatherless households and handouts of surplus cheese. "The only difference," writes the author, "was that in the black and Latino neighborhoods people were saying the words: poverty, drugs, guns, crime, race, class, corruption...
...Crimson was unable to keep its focus after the Golden Bears doubled their lead. Just 18 seconds later, UC-Berkeley scored again. Assisted by Chris Roner and Kendall Simmonds, John Macdonald beat Meagher to the left, making the score 3-0 for the Golden Bears victory...
...Souls Michael Patrick MacDonald's gritty, vivid memoir of growing up Irish and poor in South Boston