Being Flynn
This "stunningly beautiful memoir" (San Francisco Chronicle) is now a major motion picture starring Robert De Niro and Paul Dano.A Focus Features production, Nick Flynn’s moving memoir of his relationship with his father is directed by Paul Weitz, whose films include About a Boy and Little...
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This "stunningly beautiful memoir" (San Francisco Chronicle) is now a major motion picture starring Robert De Niro and Paul Dano.A Focus Features production, Nick Flynn’s moving memoir of his relationship with his father is directed by Paul Weitz, whose films include About a Boy and Little Fockers.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780393341492 (0393341496)
ASIN: 393341496
Publish date: February 6th 2012
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages no: 351
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Literature,
Book Club,
Family,
Biography Memoir,
Poetry,
Mental Health,
Mental Illness
Good, effective memoir/story of the author's father's struggle with homelessness and alcohol and drug use. Very well-written and compelling. A good read.
Despite the important topic here (homelessness and poverty in America), the book was lacking in impact for me. I found it a struggle to get through, not because it was too strong or too upsetting, but because I never found a way in. It felt as self-important as "A Staggering Work of Heartbreaking ...
Being FlynnbyNick FlynnI guess they couldn't call the movie'Another Bulls**t Night in Suck City' the original title of this darkly funny and poetic memoir.Nick Flynn met his father when he was working as a caseworker in a homeless shelter in Boston. “…some part of me knew he would show up, that if I...
Being FlynnbyNick FlynnI guess they couldn't call the movie'Another Bulls**t Night in Suck City' the original title of this darkly funny and poetic memoir.Nick Flynn met his father when he was working as a caseworker in a homeless shelter in Boston. “…some part of me knew he would show up, that if I...
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