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• Attribution

  Michael Patrick MacDonald

• Publication Details

  Book, Thumb Indexed, Beacon Press, 1999

• Description

  This searing coming-of-age memoir is set in “Southie” where gangster Whitey Bulger runs the drug business, and class and racial violence erupt in response to forced busing in the 1970s. “If you were charmed by Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes .

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  Childhood and youth · Irish Americans · Biography · Irish American families · Social life and customs · Social conditions · MacDonald, Michael Patrick

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  • Collingswood Adult NonFic
    974.4/6104092 Mac (AVAILABLE)

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• Attribution

  Richard Marinick

• Publication Details

  Book, First Edition, Justin, Charles & Co., 2004

• Description

  Richard Marinick grew up running with the Southie gangs during the Whitey Bulger era, and learned to write during a ten-year prison stretch. He writes what he knows, and his shattering, utterly authentic first novel, Boyos is the result.

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  Criminals · Fiction · Marinick, Richard, 1951

• Availability

  • Collingswood Adult Fict
    Fic Mar (AVAILABLE)

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• Attribution

  Warner Bros. Pictures presents a Plan B/Initial Entertainment Group/Vertigo Entertainment production in association with Media Asia Films; screenplay by William Monahan; produced by Brad Pitt.[et al.]; directed by Martin Scorsese

• Publication Details

  Video, Widescreen ed, Warner Home Video, 2007

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  Organized crime · Drama · Organized crime investigation · Police · Undercover operations · Criminal behavior · Infiltration (Military science) · Feature films · Thrillers (Motion pictures, television, etc.) · Gangster films · Video recordings for the hearing impaired · Videodiscs · DVD-Video discs · Thriller · Feature · Gangster · Crime · Suspense films · Grey, Brad, 1958 · King, Graham · Pitt, Brad, 1963 · Scorsese, Martin · Monahan, William · Shore, Howard · DiCaprio, Leonardo · Damon, Matt · Nicholson, Jack · Wahlberg, Mark, 1971 · Sheen, Martin · Winstone, Ray, 1957 · Farmiga, Vera · Anderson, Anthony, 1970 · Baldwin, Alec, 1958 · Corrigan, Kevin, 1969 · Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ) · Vertigo Entertainment (Firm) · Initial Entertainment Group · Plan B (Firm) · Huan ya zong yi ji tuan (Hong Kong)

• Availability

  • Collingswood DVD
    DVD Dep DVD 1516 DRAMA (AVAILABLE)
    DVD Dep DVD 1995 DRAMA (AVAILABLE)

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• Attribution

  Warner Bros. Pictures; Vertigo Entertainment; Initial Entertainment Group; Plan B Entertainment; Media Asia Films; produced by Brad Grey, Graham King, Brad Pitt, Martin Scorsese; screenplay by William Monahan; directed by Martin Scorsese

• Publication Details

  Book, Widescreen ed, Warner Home Video, 2007

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  Colección Los delitos · Teatro · Organized crime · Drama · Organized crime investigation · Police · Undercover operations · Criminal behavior · Infiltration (Military science) · Crimen organizado · DVD-Video discs · Feature films · Thrillers (Television programs) · Gangster films · Films for the hearing impaired · Suspense fiction · Feature · Gangster · Crime · Thrillers (Motion pictures, television, etc.) · Grey, Brad, 1958 · King, Graham · Pitt, Brad, 1963 · Scorsese, Martin · Monahan, William · DiCaprio, Leonardo · Damon, Matt · Nicholson, Jack · Wahlberg, Mark, 1971 · Sheen, Martin · Winstone, Ray, 1957 · Farmiga, Vera · Anderson, Anthony, 1970 · Baldwin, Alec, 1958 · Corrigan, Kevin, 1969 · Shore, Howard · Mai, Zhaohui, 1965 · Zhuang Wenqiang · Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ) · Vertigo Entertainment (Firm) · Initial Entertainment Group · Plan B Entertainment (Firm) · Huan Ya zong yi ji tuan (Hong Kong) · Warner Home Video (Firm)

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