false 386 10 <B>"A stunningly beautiful new memoir; a near-perfect work of literature." Stephen Elliot, <I>San Francisco Chronicle</I></B> "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 joint. In bold, dazzling prose, <I>Another Bullshit Night in Suck City</I> (a phrase Flynn senior uses to describe his life on the streets) tells the story of two lives and the trajectory that led Nick and his father into that homeless shelter, onto those streets, and finally to each other. With a new postscript for the paperback edition. 3328037 2004 Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir total:1707|5:429|4:622|3:480|2:140|1:36| 1707 6389 2840 300 1 12 false false Thu Dec 06 20:33:23 -0800 2007 Sun Mar 16 19:30:53 -0700 2008 2 7 false false Wed Sep 26 18:41:25 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 26 18:58:53 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 5 false false Wed Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Mon Aug 20 12:14:15 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 20 12:19:41 -0700 2007
For all the crappy memoirists out there, I'm glad we have writers like Flynn who remind us that the genre doesn't necessarily have to be a haven...more...]]> 4 4 true false Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sat May 05 07:42:42 -0700 2007 Thu May 10 06:57:43 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 3 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Aug 16 16:17:27 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 24 12:42:40 -0700 2007 Up in the Old Hotel except that 1) it is relatively contemporary; 2) it is about Boston; and 3) it is autobiographical. Which is to say that, on the outside, it is nothing like Up in the Old Hotel. Except that it is what I call a "mood" book...more...]]> 4 2 false false Fri Dec 19 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 18 14:00:13 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 19 16:50:03 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Dec 05 19:42:10 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 18 11:14:03 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Nov 29 17:17:13 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 29 17:18:56 -0800 2008 4 1 false false Wed Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Thu May 17 07:26:37 -0700 2007 Thu May 17 07:27:17 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 02 22:44:34 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 02 23:44:42 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Apr 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 18 20:00:54 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 29 11:38:33 -0700 2009 I figured that I would read his memoir, and it has a great title!

It's about him meeting his father for the first time in the homeless shelter where he worked.

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It is about a man (addict) who starts working at a homeless shelter and his homeless father (addict) comes in to stay. Awkward!

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