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Sto caricando le informazioni... Another Bullshit Night in Suck Citydi Nick Flynn
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Nick Flynn conoció a su padre cuando ya tenía veintisiete años y trabajaba en un albergue para indigentes en Boston. Jonathan Flynn, un aspirante a escritor, se había marchado de casa cuando su hijo tenía seis meses. Cuando Nick ya era un adolescente recibió algunas cartas desde la cárcel, donde su padre estaba condenado por estafa, en las que decía que la experiencia le serviría para ser el Dostoievski de su generación, o el nuevo Solzhenitzyn, el nuevo cronista de las prisiones, el autor de las contemporáneas memorias del subsuelo. Nick, entretanto, comienza su propio viaje por la literatura, la desesperación, el alcohol y las drogas y trabaja para un antiguo novio de su madre, un veterano del Vietnam que, junto con otros pequeños mafiosos del lugar, ha creado una considerable organización para el tráfico de drogas y, posiblemente, blanqueo de dinero. Tiempo después, su madre se suicida (...) Y Nick quiere salvarse. Y escribir sus propios libros... Somehow simultaneously tender and candid, this memoir might qualify as required reading. Not only does it provide insight into the status of one of our society's most invisible and underrepresented castes, it also makes careful and thoughtful statements about human vulnerability, the tenuousness of relationships, and the status of narrative as a means of expressing the inexpressible.
This story of two reluctantly converging lives emerges from a book that is written in an impressionistic, fragmentary style. The short chapters describe events in non-chronological order, in a style sometimes so subjective that it actually seems to capture the banal, confusing mind of a homeless drunkard. This is close to how memory must work: moments of past and present, mingling in no particular order, are capable of being organised into a semblance of narrative by a normally functioning mind. Yet when normality is broken down, by drink, drugs or a concussive accident, the randomness comes to the fore. The style of this book is its main achievement. Appartiene alle Collane EditorialiGallimard, Folio (4584) Premi e riconoscimentiMenzioni
Biography & Autobiography.
Nonfiction.
HTML: "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. .Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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