The Ticking Is The Bomb A Memoir
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The Ticking Is The Bomb A Memoir
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Author : Nick Flynn
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2010
The Ticking Is The Bomb A Memoir written by Nick Flynn and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Haunted by a history of addiction, his unsteady father and a longing to connect with his mother who committed suicide, the author interweaves passages from his childhood, his relationships with women and his concern over the post-9/11 world of terror, torture and political crimes. By the author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City.
The Ticking Is The Bomb
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Author : Nick Flynn
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2010-12-21
The Ticking Is The Bomb written by Nick Flynn and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"A beautiful, intelligent book that renders pain both ordinary and extraordinary into art."—Susanna Sonnenberg, San Francisco Chronicle In 2007, during the months before Nick Flynn’s daughter’s birth, his growing outrage and obsession with torture, exacerbated by the Abu Ghraib photographs, led him to Istanbul to meet some of the Iraqi men depicted in those photos. Haunted by a history of addiction, a relationship with his unsteady father, and a longing to connect with his mother who committed suicide, Flynn artfully interweaves in this memoir passages from his childhood, his relationships with women, and his growing obsession—a questioning of terror, torture, and the political crimes we can neither see nor understand in post-9/11 American life. The time bomb of the title becomes an unlikely metaphor and vehicle for exploring the fears and joys of becoming a father. Here is a memoir of profound self-discovery—of being lost and found, of painful family memories and losses, of the need to run from love, and of the ability to embrace it again.
This Is The Night Our House Will Catch Fire A Memoir
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Author : Nick Flynn
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2020-08-25
This Is The Night Our House Will Catch Fire A Memoir written by Nick Flynn and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-25 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A searing memoir on how childhood spills into parenthood from the critically acclaimed author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City. When Nick Flynn was seven years old, his mother set fire to their house. The event loomed large in his imagination for years, but it’s only after having a child of his own that he understands why. He returns with his young daughter to the landscape of his youth, reflecting on how his feral childhood has him still in its reins, and forms his memories into lyrical bedtime stories populated by the both sinister and wounded Mister Mann. With the spare lyricism and dark irony of his classic, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, Flynn excavates the terrain of his traumatic upbringing and his mother’s suicide. This Is the Night Our House Will Catch Fire unravels the story of the fire that Flynn had to escape, and the ways in which, as an adult, he has carried that fire with him until it threatens to burn down his own house. Here Nick confronts his failings with fierce candor, even as they threaten to tear his family apart. His marriage in crisis, Flynn seeks answers from his therapist, who tells him he has “the ethics of a drowning man.” This Is the Night Our House Will Catch Fire takes us on the journey of a man struggling to hold himself together in prose that is raw and moving, sharp-edged and wry. Alternating literary analysis and philosophy with intimate memoir, Flynn probes his deepest ethical dilemmas.
Some Ether
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Author : Nick Flynn
language : en
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Release Date : 2015-06-02
Some Ether written by Nick Flynn and has been published by Graywolf Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-02 with Poetry categories.
Winner of a "Discovery"/The Nation Award Winner of the 1999 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry Some Ether is one of the more remarkable debut collections of poetry to appear in America in recent memory. As Mark Doty has noted, "these poems are more than testimony; in lyrics of ringing clarity and strange precision, Flynn conjures a will to survive, the buoyant motion toward love which is sometimes all that saves us. Some Ether resonates in the imagination long after the final poem; this is a startling, moving debut."
Another Bullshit Night In Suck City
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Author : Nick Flynn
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2016-02-25
Another Bullshit Night In Suck City written by Nick Flynn and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-25 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Nick Flynn met his father when he was twenty-seven years old, working as a caseworker in a homeless shelter in Boston. As a teenager he'd received letters from this mystery father - self-proclaimed poet (and greatest American novelist since Mark Twain), descendant of the Romanov dynasty, alcoholic, and con-man doing time for bank robbery - but there had been no contact. Another Bullshit Night in Suck City (a phrase Flynn senior uses to describe his life on the streets) tells the story of the eerie trajectory that led Nick and his father into that homeless shelter, onto those streets, and finally to each other. With a raw authenticity, telling honesty and a dark but necessary humour, Nick Flynn's memoir breathes new life and vigour into the form. In passionate and playful prose Another Bullshit Night in Suck City illuminates the emotional and physical consequences of a relationship between father and son that exists, if at all, in a void.
House Of Stone
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Author : Anthony Shadid
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2012
House Of Stone written by Anthony Shadid and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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Sempre Susan
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Author : Sigrid Nunez
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2014-10-07
Sempre Susan written by Sigrid Nunez and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
From the author of The Friend, winner of the 2018 National Book Award. "The masterpiece of the ‘I knew Susan’ minigenre" – A.O. Scott, The New York Times A poignant, intimate memoir of one of America’s most esteemed and fascinating cultural figures, and a deeply felt tribute. Sigrid Nunez was an aspiring writer when she first met Susan Sontag, already a legendary figure known for her polemical essays, blinding intelligence, and edgy personal style. Sontag introduced Nunez to her son, the writer David Rieff, and the two began dating. Soon Nunez moved into the apartment that Rieff and Sontag shared. As Sontag told Nunez, “Who says we have to live like everyone else?” Sontag’s influence on Nunez, who went on to become a successful novelist, would be profound. Described by Nunez as “a natural mentor” who saw educating others as both a moral obligation and a source of endless pleasure, Sontag inevitably infected those around her with her many cultural and intellectual passions. In this poignant, intimate memoir, Nunez speaks of her gratitude for having had, as an early model, “someone who held such an exalted, unironic view of the writer’s vocation.” Published more than six years after Sontag’s death, Sempre Susan is a startlingly truthful portrait of this outsized personality, who made being an intellectual a glamorous occupation.
I Wore The Ocean In The Shape Of A Girl
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Author : Kelle Groom
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2012-04-03
I Wore The Ocean In The Shape Of A Girl written by Kelle Groom and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A memoir of addiction and grief, forgiveness, and survival from a poet who recovers from alcoholism only after she sees her child die of leukemia.
Night Goblins
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Author : Harrison Demchick
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-08-15
Night Goblins written by Harrison Demchick and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-15 with categories.
'Someone Please Come Adopt This A**hole!'So begins the 2016 Craigslist ad that introduced the internet to The Ditch Kitty, a maniacal orange kitten saved from a roadside ditch only to turn his rescuer's life into a living hell.The post went viral. And the internet fell in love with the tiny, orange monster. But it would have been impossible at the time for almost anyone to know the story behind the ad.They couldn't know about The Kid- the one so desperate to escape his abusive home that he attempted suicide at the age of 10, the one who grew up to be a soldier, because what else is such a directionless kid supposed to do? And they definitely couldn't know about the drinking. The despair. And how all of it- the PTSD, the alcoholism, and above all his reckless stupidity- would put him behind the wheel of a ticking time bomb and cost the life of a man he never met. When JT Gregory meets The Ditch Kitty, he's completely lost- out of prison and out of work, failing to write a book he'll never finish- and awaiting news on the birth of a child he's in no way qualified to have. A child that would be so much better off without a screw-up ex-con in her life. So who's the real asshole? And who, in the end, saves whom?Night Goblins: A Memoir is the striking true story of one man's trauma, his guilt and self-loathing- and the tiny, orange night goblin who saved him from it all.
Bomb Shelter
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Author : Mary Laura Philpott
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2023-04-04
Bomb Shelter written by Mary Laura Philpott and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"A ... memoir-in-essays that tackles the big questions of life, death, and existential fear with humor and hope"--