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| Title | : | Another Bullshit Night in Suck City |
| Author | : | Nick Flynn |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe 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 |
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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| 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) |
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Ratings: 3.79 From 10073 Users | 958 ReviewsJudgment Containing Books Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
Nick Flynns pathos-packed memoir is part coming-of-age story and part counter-culture-chronicle, part mental-illness menagerie and part generational-reconciliation-project. His poetic past serves him well, manifesting in image shards and lingual leaps that strike chords that vibrate in a reader long after she puts down the book. Like life, there is no tidy resolution to this story, no miraculous recovery for his addled dadas the narrator ages and matures, hes just able to manage better and takeWith a style vaguely reminiscent of the Beat generation novels, Flynn tells a story that's purely his to tell. +10 points for referencing many Boston locations I'm familiar with, including the Pine Street Inn, one of the largest homeless shelters (and now, long-term housing providers) in the area.
I first fell in love with this book as a college Junior in my first Contemporary American Literature course. I loved its nonlinear structure, experimentation with mixing genres and poetic allusions. I now return to it about once a year, particularly when I'm struggling with my own alcoholic and perpetually absent father, as a kind of sense-maker for my own world.
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
Nick Flynns Another Bullshit Night in Suck City tells the story of himself as a confused young adult who struggles to avoid following his long lost fathers footsteps to homelessness and misery. The book is set at Situate, Massachusetts, also known as Suck City, to the city of Boston around the time of 1960s to 1990s, when Nicks father, Jonathan Flynn, was a young adult to present time when Nick, himself, is a young adult. Trying his best to avoid becoming the towns drunk and failure just like
Oh god this book is so incredibly good. One of the endorsements on the back says something like, Finally someone whose life is worthy of a memoir happens to be talented enough to write a good one. Yes, yes! I wish I had come up with that line!***********************************************Just finished reading this book again. After the disappointing mess of The Frog King, I had to read something I knew was phenomenal, to reaffirm my faith in literature. And oh, thank you, Nick Flynn, I love you
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