The Ticking Is the Bomb
In 2007, during the months before Nick Flynn's daughter's birth, his growing outrage and obsession with torture, exacerbated by the Abu Ghraib photographs, led him to Istanbul to meet some of the Iraqi men depicted in those photos. Haunted by a history of addiction, a relationship with his unsteady father, and a longing to connect with his mother who committed suicide, Flynn artfully interweaves in this memoir passages from his childhood, his relationships with women, and his growing obsession-a questioning of terror, torture, and the political crimes we can neither see nor understand in post-9/11 American life. The time bomb of the title bec…
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- ISBN: 978-0-393-06816-0
- EAN: 9780393068160
- Produktnummer: 5079692
- Verlag: W W Norton & Co Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 283 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.9 cm x D2.8 cm 458 g
- Gewicht: 458
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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