Summary of Nick Flynn's Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 Some people find their way to the ATM after midnight, after the last Dunkin’ Donuts closes. They rattle the door to get my father’s attention, but unless he knows them, he’ll pretend to be asleep or absorbed in his banking.
#2 In Boston, the bars close at one. The next wave of revelers, more gregarious than the earlier crowd, push their way inside. Sometimes they give you a hassle, but sometimes they flip you a few bucks.
#3 My father’s family is rich, with gardeners and chauffeurs during the Great Depression. His grandfather owned a roofing company that had the contracts for Faneuil Hall and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
#4 I knew my father was a taxi driver, and I knew he had become homeless shortly after I was born. I did not know where he was, or what he was doing, and I did not ask.

Sujets

• Autobiography
• Biography
• Lettres et linguistique
• Literary Figures

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 10 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822503410
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Nick Flynn's Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6 Insights from Chapter 7
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Some people find their way to the ATM after midnight, after the last Dunkin’ Donuts closes. They rattle the door to get my father’s attention, but unless he knows them, he’ll pretend to be asleep or absorbed in his banking.

#2

In Boston, the bars close at one. The next wave of revelers, more gregarious than the earlier crowd, push their way inside. Sometimes they give you a hassle, but sometimes they flip you a few bucks.

#3

My father’s family is rich, with gardeners and chauffeurs during the Great Depression. His grandfather owned a roofing company that had the contracts for Faneuil Hall and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

#4

I knew my father was a taxi driver, and I knew he had become homeless shortly after I was born. I did not know where he was, or what he was doing, and I did not ask.

#5

I knew the spots outside where my father slept, and I would see him walking past my building on his way to another nowhere. I could have given him a key, offered a piece of my floor, but I never did.

#6

Jonathan, years before he will become my father, is back north for another summer. He often wanders Harvard Square dressed in tennis whites, searching for Radcliffe girls. He is becoming more and more important for someone like him, who doesn’t care much for money.

#7

Jody was a rebellious and adrift teenager, and she fell for Jonathan, who was charming in his own way. They went on a date in his car that first night, and he took her to Peggotty Beach. They talked about their families and how he had to get away from Scituate to become his own man.

#8

In May, Jonathan leaves Palm Beach for Boston and moves into Ray’s apartment. Jody has let him know that she’s three months pregnant. Anything could happen. Adoption is a possibility, abortion is not.

#9

I asked my father about his two marriages, and he said that it was important that the children came from a wealthy family. He insisted that it was all for the children.

#10

After two years of diminishing returns, my grandfather canned Jonathan as president of European Engineering, cut his losses, and folded up shop. My mother was relieved to be free of her father. My father decided to take in used foreign cars and sell them on commission, full-time.

#11

Some fathers are gone. Some are left. Some return, unknown and hungry. Only the dog remembers. And if around, most disappear all day to jobs their children only slightly understand.

#12

My father, who is homeless, sleeps outside on freezing nights. He wraps himself in newspaper and duct tape, and lies on the ground. He puts his feet into the bag and pushes until they reach the bottom.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

If you were raised in a village two hundred years ago, and your father was a drunk, then everyone in the village would know that the town drunk or the village idiot was your father. They couldn’t help but wonder what part of his madness had passed on to you.

#2

I worked the Cage, where the bed tickets are given out, and the valuables, if any, are stored. I got to know the guests by name and tried to be responsible with their money.

#3

There are many different lobbies in the shelter, each with their own rules and dynamics. The Brown Lobby is mostly old timers who have been addicts for a long time, while the Yellow Lobby is mostly young addicts and psych patients.

#4

My father had a warrant out for his nonpayment of child support. He was afraid to go home, so he sat in his car outside his family’s house. He looked up at his mother’s bedroom window, and imagined her bedridden.