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Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City A Memoir
Author: Nick Flynn
"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." ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780393051391
ISBN-10: 0393051390
Publication Date: 9/30/2004
Pages: 288
Rating:
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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3.8 stars, based on 18 ratings
Publisher: W. W. Norton Company
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
Members Wishing: 2
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reviewed Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir on + 14 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 5
This book was on my wishlist for a long time. I was glad to finally have it in my page turning hands. I'm not sure now, if I really enjoyed the book all that much. Some nights I was held captive by the gritty, true life memoir of Nick Flynn and his homeless/alcoholic dad. Other nights I was glad I was sleepy, giving me an excuse to put the book down. A mixed bag. I am left with so many questions, it is like I walked into a movie a half hour late, or left before the ending, or both. I thought this book would be as good or better than "The Glass Castle" but sadly, it was not. BUT... worth the read anyway. It is unique.
bigrachwoowoo avatar reviewed Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir on + 23 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
An interesting read about a young man working in a homeless shelter and dealing with his father's homelessness. Tells the story of his growing up in Boston.
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Helpful Score: 2
Memoir of a young man working as a caseworker in a homeless shelter when he met his father who was a client in the shelter. Well written. Named one of the New York Public Library's Top 25 Books in 2004. Winner of the Pen/Martha Albrand Award for Memoirs.
Naiche avatar reviewed Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir on + 91 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
I found this book rather lacking in insight. It's an interesting story, of course - what do you do when your own father shows up at the homeless shelter that you work at? But the author reacts like a teenager, so caught up in his own embarassment and anger at his father for putting him in this situation that he can't spare a second's empathy for the guy. He's too immature to either help the situation and or to stand back and ask someone with a healthier attitude to step in, so he just goes on self-destructive drinking binges. I know we all act irrationally around family, but this guy just seems to be wallowing in spiteful anger and blaming his own self-absorbtion on his absentee dad.
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reviewed Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir on
rather confessional but good style
kathyk avatar reviewed Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir on
A sad but touching memoir. An alcoholic father and the son who seems to be making the same mistakes, yet can't quite forgive his father. There is more to it, but I don't want to give it away.
While not a fun or easy read, I enjoyed it just the same. That says something as I hardly ever read non-fiction.
I am going to pass this along to my mother and sister, and then decide if it is a keeper for me.
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Don't let the title sway you- this is a touching book about a guy and his homeless father.


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