Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
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. Nick Flynn met his father for the third time 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 stranger, a self-proclaimed poet and con man doing time in federal prison for bank robbery. Nick, his own life precariously unsettled, was living alternately in a ramshackle boat and in a warehouse that was once a strip j…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-393-05139-1
- EAN: 9780393051391
- Produktnummer: 27763597
- Verlag: WW Norton & Co
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Masse: H21.7 cm x B14.8 cm x D3.0 cm 518 g
- Abbildungen: illustrations
- Gewicht: 518
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
Nick Flynn is the author of This Is the Night Our House Will Catch Fire and three previous memoirs, including the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award-winning Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, and four volumes of poetry. A professor on the creative writing faculty at the University of Houston, he lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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