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  • From: WWWhatsup <joly AT dti.net>
  • To: Typical Girls <typicalgirls AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [TypicalGirls] Fwd: New Book, EASTER RISING, a memoir, has many Slits references
  • Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:47:11 -0500


>
>Easter Rising, the new memoir by Michael Patrick MacDonald, bestselling
>author of All Souls:
>A Family Story From Southie, tells of the authors escape from South Boston's
>Old Colony
>Housing Project in the 70s and 80s through the discovery of underground
>music of the punk
>and post-punk period. While the author's neighborhood peers and four
>siblings were young
>casualties of the streets, crippled or else dead from suicide, drug related
>crime and violence,
>bank robberies and jewelry store heists orgainized by the Irish Mafia, the
>author was
>wandering out of the Irish housing projects and over the bridge downtown to
>sneak into
>shows at local small venues, seeing bands like Mission of Burma, The Clash,
>and The Slits in
>their early days. The Slits and bands of the post punk era play a prominent
>role in the
>author's teen life (1979-83), helping him to break free of a neighborhood
>that housed the
>highest concentration of white poverty in America, and to find the bigger
>world.
>A story of roots, rock and rebellion.
>
>Easter Rising (Houghton Mifflin Co.)
>
>myspace.com/easterrising333
>
>
>

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