Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

author
Nick Flynn

what the back of the book says
Nick Flynn met his father when he was working as a caseworker in a homeless shelter in Boston. As a teenager he'd received letters from this stranger father, a self-proclaimed poet and con man doing time in federal prison for bank robbery. Another Bullshit Night in Suck City tells the story of the trajectory that led Nick and his father onto the streets, into that shelter, and finally to each other.

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other people who liked this book (or at least say they did)
"Nick Flynn's devastating memoir does what only significant works of art can do—it shows us a world we know, but fail to see or understand. No one who reads Another Bullshit Night in Suck City will ever walk through a city in the same way again. If I say that Flynn's book ranks with Frank Conroy's Stop-Time, I mean it as the highest possible praise."
—Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours

"Nick Flynn has given us one of the most terrifying families in American letters, though he approaches each character in this ferocious, inventive memoir with an almost radical sense of compassion, as if all that any of us could do were to stumble ahead with the burdens we're given. The result is a book so singular, harrowing and loving as to be indelible."
—Mark Doty, author of Firebird

"A stunningly beautiful new memoir . . . a near-perfect work of literature."
—Stephen Elliot, San Francisco Chronicle

"A remarkable feat: a clear-eyed, inventive, and astonishingly honest guided tour of hell."
—Elissa Schappel, Vanity Fair

"Flynn's authentic voice . . . holds us rapt, keeping both the tragic and the redemptive possibilities open."
—Darren Reidy, Village Voice

"Readers of memoirists Frank Conroy and Tobias Wolff will relish Flynn's pungent account of two rudderless souls who navigate their way back into each other's lives."
—Allison Block, Booklist

"A potent, distinctive autobiography. . . . Flynn's talents are considerable—he has a compelling voice and a wry sense of humor."
—Vendela Vida, New York Times Book Review

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