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Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

by Nick Flynn

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"Sometimes I'd see my father, walking past my building on his way to another nowhere. I could have given him a key, offered a piece of my floor. But if I let him inside the line between us would blur, my own slow-motion car wreck would speed up."

With a raw authenticity stripped of self-pity and a powerful narrative voice unlike any other, Being Flynn illuminates the hidden story of fathers and sons in America. Nick Flynn has written a remarkable testament to the enduring strength of one boy's struggle for survival.

Nick 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, a self-proclaimed poet and con man doing time in federal prison for bank robbery. Being Flynn 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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This book stays flatter than its cocky title for a while, and I almost abandoned it midway. It finishes strong, though, combining some flashy formal fireworks with a much tighter narrative grasp. ( )
  AlexThurman | Dec 26, 2021 |
Wow.

And I thought my life was bad.

Can hardly wait to see the film adaptation, called Being Flynn, with Robert DeNiro as Jonathan Flynn. Not a Date Night Movie, for sure. ( )
  FinallyJones | Nov 17, 2021 |
Somehow simultaneously tender and candid, this memoir might qualify as required reading. Not only does it provide insight into the status of one of our society's most invisible and underrepresented castes, it also makes careful and thoughtful statements about human vulnerability, the tenuousness of relationships, and the status of narrative as a means of expressing the inexpressible. ( )
  dowswell | Jul 25, 2021 |
Could have been 4 stars if the ending wasn't so crappy. ( )
  Adammmmm | Sep 10, 2019 |
An intense memoir about a father-son relationship, where the father is largely physically absent but also mentally exhausting. Addiction (on both parties' parts) and homelessness does not help either.

Sometimes read like poetry. ( )
  alyssajp | Jul 29, 2019 |
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This story of two reluctantly converging lives emerges from a book that is written in an impressionistic, fragmentary style. The short chapters describe events in non-chronological order, in a style sometimes so subjective that it actually seems to capture the banal, confusing mind of a homeless drunkard. This is close to how memory must work: moments of past and present, mingling in no particular order, are capable of being organised into a semblance of narrative by a normally functioning mind. Yet when normality is broken down, by drink, drugs or a concussive accident, the randomness comes to the fore. The style of this book is its main achievement.
 

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Hamm: Scoundrel! Why did you engender me?
Nagg: I didn't know.
Hamm: What? What didn't you know?
Nagg: That it'd be you.

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(1989) Please, she whispers, how may I help you?
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"Another Bullshit Night In Suck City" was later published as "Being Flynn".
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Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. HTML:

"Sometimes I'd see my father, walking past my building on his way to another nowhere. I could have given him a key, offered a piece of my floor. But if I let him inside the line between us would blur, my own slow-motion car wreck would speed up."

With a raw authenticity stripped of self-pity and a powerful narrative voice unlike any other, Being Flynn illuminates the hidden story of fathers and sons in America. Nick Flynn has written a remarkable testament to the enduring strength of one boy's struggle for survival.

Nick 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, a self-proclaimed poet and con man doing time in federal prison for bank robbery. Being Flynn 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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2 editions of this book were published by W.W. Norton.

Editions: 0393329402, 0393051390

 

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