Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir
By Nick Flynn.
Description
"Devastating....Ranks with Frank Conroy's Stop-Time."--Michael Cunningham "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 i...
ISBN(s)
0393051390, 9780393051391
