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Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

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Description for Another Bullshit Night in Suck City paperback. In bold, dazzling prose, Flynn tells the story of two lives and the trajectory that led him and his father into a homeless shelter, onto Boston's streets, and finally to each other. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BGA; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 126 x 27. Weight in Grams: 322.

Nick Flynn met his father when he was twenty-seven years old, working as a caseworker in a homeless shelter in Boston. As a teenager he'd received letters from this mystery father - self-proclaimed poet (and greatest American novelist since Mark Twain), descendant of the Romanov dynasty, alcoholic, and con-man doing time for bank robbery - but there had been no contact. Another Bullshit Night in Suck City (a phrase Flynn senior uses to describe his life on the streets) tells the story of the eerie trajectory that led Nick and his father into that homeless shelter, onto those streets, and ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Faber And Faber Ltd.
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571214082
SKU
9780571214082
Shipping Time
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About Nick Flynn
Nick Flynn is the author of two collections of poetry, Blind Huber and Some Ether, and the acclaimed work of non-fiction, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City. In another life he worked as an electrician, a ship's captain, and as an educator in New York City public schools. His words have appeared over the years in The New Yorker, The ... Read more

Reviews for Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
"'What a piece of work. I don't usually like memoirs, but if they were all like Nick Flynn's - eloquent, funny, unsentimental, and bravely inventive - I'd read them by the truckload.' Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River; 'No one who reads Another Bullshit Night will ever walk through a city in the same way again.' Michael Cunningham"

Goodreads reviews for Another Bullshit Night in Suck City


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