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Article: THE MAN WHO OPENEDTHE WINDOWS AND SCREAMED MICHAEL PATRICK MACDONALD'S SOUTHIE MEMOIR HAS STRUCK A CHORD FOR JUSTICE
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- March 16, 2000
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Intensity is the quality that immediately springs to mind when one
is around Michael Patrick MacDonald. There is, first of all, the
intensity of MacDonald himself. A husky Irish-American with piercing
blue eyes, the 34-year-old author-activist seems perpetually
distracted and permanently coiled, like a combat vet reliving his
last firefight.
"People tell me that whatever made me a survivor, they should
bottle it," says MacDonald, scowling. "But that kind of talk just
pisses me off. I don't want anyone to bottle it. It was not fun to
live through. Making kids more resilient is not what being a kid
should be about."
There is, too, the intensity of MacDonald's book. "All Souls: A
Family Story ...