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Bøger fortalt af Michael Patrick Macdonald

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  • All Souls

    A Family Story from Southie

    The anti-busing riots of 1974 forever changed Southie, Boston's working class Irish community, branding it as a violent, racist enclave. Michael Patrick MacDonald grew up in Southie's Old Colony housing project. He describes the way this world within a world felt to the troubled yet keenly gifted observer he was even as a child: "[as if] we were protected, as if the whole neighborhood was watching ... Læs mere

    120,36 kr.

  • Easter Rising

    A Memoir of Roots and Rebellion

    A coming-of-age story about surviving trauma and finding purpose through Boston’s punk rock scene of the 1970s to New York City and beyond, from the bestselling author of All SoulsIn All Souls, Michael Patrick MacDonald chronicled a heartbreaking saga of familial loss amid Irish South Boston's culture of silence. In Easter Rising, he tells the story of how he managed to survive it.Finding refuge ... Læs mere

    120,36 kr.

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  • Easter Rising

    A Memoir of Roots and Rebellion

    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 ... Læs mere

    83,00 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Coming of Age in a Hardscrabble World

    A Memoir Anthology

    Nonfiction storytelling is at its best in this anthology of excerpts from memoirs by thirty authors—some eminent, some less well known—who grew up tough and talented in working-class America. Their stories, selected from literary memoirs published between 1982 and 2014, cover episodes from childhood to young adulthood within a spectrum of life-changing experiences. Although diverse ethnically, ... Læs mere

    864,24 kr.

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    Easter Rising

    A Memoir of Roots and Rebellion

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    6 timer

    A coming-of-age story about surviving trauma and finding purpose through Boston’s punk rock scene of the 1970s to New York City and beyond, from the bestselling author of All SoulsIn All Souls, Michael Patrick MacDonald chronicled a heartbreaking saga of familial loss amid Irish South Boston's culture of silence. In Easter Rising, he tells the story of how he managed to survive it.Finding refuge ... Læs mere

    220,09 kr.

    FORUDBESTIL

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    All Souls

    A Family Story from Southie

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    8 timer 32 min

    The anti-busing riots of 1974 forever changed Southie, Boston's working class Irish community, branding it as a violent, racist enclave. Michael Patrick MacDonald grew up in Southie's Old Colony housing project. He describes the way this world within a world felt to the troubled yet keenly gifted observer he was even as a child: "[as if] we were protected, as if the whole neighborhood was watching ... Læs mere

    220,09 kr.

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    The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace

    A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League

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    *Now a major motion picture—Rob Peace—starring Jay Will, Mary J. Blige, and Chiwetel Ejiofor**Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, Entertainment Weekly, and more* The New York Times bestselling account of a young African-American man who escaped Newark, NJ, to attend Yale, but still faced the dangers of the streets when he returned is, “nuanced and shattering” (People) ... Læs mere

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    Ghettoside

    A True Story of Murder in America

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    13 timer 24 min

    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, USA TODAY, AND CHICAGO TRIBUNE • A masterly work of literary journalism about a senseless murder, a relentless detective, and the great plague of homicide in AmericaNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • The ... Læs mere

    176,86 kr.

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    America's Hidden History

    Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped a Nation

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    7 timer 38 min

    Kenneth C. Davis presents a collection of extraordinary stories, each detailing an overlooked episode that shaped the nation’s destiny and character. Davis’s dramatic narratives set the record straight, busting myths and bringing to light little-known but fascinating facts from a time when the nation’s fate hung in the balance.Spanning a period from the Spanish arrival in America to George ... Læs mere

    137,56 kr.

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    The Kingdom by the Sea

    A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain

    af Paul Theroux ...
    Fortalt af Ron Keith ...

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    14 timer 25 min

    American-born Paul Theroux had lived in England for 11 years when he realized he'd explored dozens of exotic locations without discovering anything about his adopted home. So, with a knapsack on his back, he set out to explore by walking and by short train trips. The result is a witty, observant and often acerbic look at an ever eccentric assortments of Brits in all shapes and sizes. ... Læs mere

    204,29 kr.

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    Death in the City of Light

    The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris

    af David King ...
    Fortalt af Paul Michael ...

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    13 timer 50 min

    The gripping, true story of a brutal serial killer who unleashed his own reign of terror in Nazi-Occupied Paris.As decapitated heads and dismembered body parts surfaced in the Seine, Commissaire Georges-Victor Massu, head of the Brigade Criminelle, was tasked with tracking down the elusive murderer in a twilight world of Gestapo, gangsters, resistance fighters, pimps, prostitutes, spies, and other ... Læs mere

    176,86 kr.

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    Ham On Rye

    A Novel

    Fortalt af Christian Baskous ...

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    7 timer 38 min

    In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely years of his own hardscrabble youth in the raw voice of alter ego Henry Chinaski. From a harrowingly cheerless childhood in Germany through acne-riddled high school years and his adolescent discoveries of alcohol, women, and the Los Angeles Public Library's collection of D. H. Lawrence, Ham on Rye ... Læs mere

    214,72 kr.