Another Bullshit Night in Suck City/Bullshit Nights, englische Ausgabe - Flynn, Nick
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In this razor-edged memoir Nick Flynn tells the inventive, heart-breaking and at times darkly comic story of an unconventional reunion between father and son. Nick Flynn met his estranged father at the age of 27 while working in a notorious homeless shelter in Boston. This impromptu meeting forces Flynn to reflect on his family history. Is there any truth to his father`s claims to be the greatest living American novelist since Mark Twain and a direct descendant of the Romanov dynasty, or that his grandfather invented the life raft? Another Bullshit Night in Suck City tells the story of Nick`s…mehr

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In this razor-edged memoir Nick Flynn tells the inventive, heart-breaking and at times darkly comic story of an unconventional reunion between father and son. Nick Flynn met his estranged father at the age of 27 while working in a notorious homeless shelter in Boston. This impromptu meeting forces Flynn to reflect on his family history. Is there any truth to his father`s claims to be the greatest living American novelist since Mark Twain and a direct descendant of the Romanov dynasty, or that his grandfather invented the life raft? Another Bullshit Night in Suck City tells the story of Nick`s early life with his mother as she struggled to keep the fractured family together, and the eerie transient life that led his father onto the streets. It is a remarkable story of sreconciliation against the odds through the enduring strength of one boy`s struggle for survival.

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Nick Flynn is the author of two collections of poetry, Blind Huber and Some Ether, and the acclaimed work of non-fiction, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City. In another life he worked as an electrician, a ship's captain, and as an educator in New York City public schools. His words have appeared over the years in The New Yorker, The Nation, Fence, The New York Times Book Review and The Paris Review. His most recent work, the memoir, The Ticking is the Bomb was published by Faber in 2009. One semester a year he teaches at the University of Houston, and then he spends the rest of the year elsewhere.