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| Original Title: | Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir |
| ISBN: | 0393329402 (ISBN13: 9780393329407) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://books.wwnorton.com/books/Another-Bullshit-Night-in-Suck-City/ |
| Literary Awards: | PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir (2005) |
Nick Flynn
Paperback | Pages: 347 pages Rating: 3.79 | 10073 Users | 958 Reviews
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Nick Flynn met his father when he was working as a caseworker in a homeless shelter in Boston. As a teenager he'd received letters from this stranger father, a self-proclaimed poet and con man doing time in federal prison for bank robbery. Another Bullshit Night in Suck City tells the story of the trajectory that led Nick and his father onto the streets, into that shelter, and finally to each other. .
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| Title | : | Another Bullshit Night in Suck City |
| Author | : | Nick Flynn |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 347 pages |
| Published | : | September 12th 2005 by W. W. Norton & Company (first published 2004) |
| Categories | : | Autobiography. Memoir. Nonfiction. Biography. Biography Memoir. Poetry. Mental Health. Mental Illness |
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Posted at Shelf InflictedThe bold and colorful title and cover caught my eye at the library. I wasnt sure I wanted to read another depressing memoir about homelessness, but since it took place in Boston, a city Im quite familiar with, I decided to give it a go. There were some darkly humorous moments, as Id expected from the title. Overall, this was a poignant, honest, and intense story about Nick Flynns relationship with his absent, alcoholic, and delusional father. I learned after I startedThis book is a memoir by a guy who did not have a relationship with his father until he met him serendipitously at a homeless shelter where Nick worked. Flynns writing sometimes waxes poetic with his small anecdotes about growing up without a dad, and the trouble that he often found himself in. The Patty Hearst Story and Creature Double Feature are familiar events to my childhood as well, which makes for a nostalgic moment. This was made into a movie starring Robert DeNiro and Julianne Moore; it
Posted at Shelf InflictedThe bold and colorful title and cover caught my eye at the library. I wasnt sure I wanted to read another depressing memoir about homelessness, but since it took place in Boston, a city Im quite familiar with, I decided to give it a go. There were some darkly humorous moments, as Id expected from the title. Overall, this was a poignant, honest, and intense story about Nick Flynns relationship with his absent, alcoholic, and delusional father. I learned after I started
So this book is kind of like Joseph Mitchell's Up in the Old Hotel except that 1) it is relatively contemporary; 2) it is about Boston; and 3) it is autobiographical. Which is to say that, on the outside, it is nothing like Up in the Old Hotel. Except that it is what I call a "mood" book that gets you in the Boston "mood" - like, more a tableau than a novel. Yeah, you like that I wrote "tableau" didn't you? I was trying to fit the term "geist" in but I am too lazy to think up a sentence for it,
Nick Flynn is a poet, and I don't really read poetry. I don't have a criticism of poetry as a whole, obviously- I mean, I might say I do, but if I did that would just be to be provocative and a pain in your ass- it's just hard for me to pay attention in the way you have to pay attention, and to really understand what a poem is doing. We could argue about it, but trust me, it's my problem and it's not resolving. So it was really hard for me to get into this book. Nick Flyyn is a poet, and he
I was reluctant to give this five stars--it's not an easy experience. But it's definitely amazing. Don't confuse it with just another quirky family memoir: it has emotionally raw and real things to say about alcoholism, mental illness, heredity, and the homeless. (Each person from the shelter is drawn so distinctively it makes you realize how reductive and dismissive the term "the homeless" really is).I make it sounds harsh and dark--which it is--but there is also a deadpan sense of humor
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