Being Flynn: A Memoir; Originally Published as Another Bullshit Night in Suck City Contributor(s): Flynn, Nick (Author), Brick, Scott (Read by) |
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ISBN: 1441733442 ISBN-13: 9781441733443 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: December 2010 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures |
Dewey: B |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.2" W x 5.8" (0.30 lbs) |
Themes: - Cultural Region - New England - Locality - Boston-Worcester, Mass. - Geographic Orientation - Massachusetts |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: "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." With a raw authenticity stripped of self-pity and a powerful narrative voice unlike any other, Being Flynn illuminates the hidden story of fathers and sons in America. Nick Flynn has written a remarkable testament to the enduring strength of one boy's struggle for survival. Nick 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, a self-proclaimed poet and con man doing time in federal prison for bank robbery. Being Flynn tells the story of the trajectory that led Nick and his father onto the streets, into that shelter, and finally, to each other. |
Contributor Bio(s): Brick, Scott: - Scott Brick, actor, narrator, and writer, attended UCLA and spent ten years in a traveling Shakespeare company. Passionate about the spoken word, he has narrated a wide variety of audiobooks, from thrillers and science fiction to classics and nonfiction. He has recorded more than eight hundred audiobooks and won over fifty AudioFile Earphones Awards and several of the prestigious Audie Awards. He was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine and the Voice of Choice for 2016 by Booklist magazine. Flynn, Nick: - Nick Flynn is an award-winning poet and author most recently of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, winner of the PEN/Martha Albrand Award. |