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THE TICKING IS THE BOMB
A MEMOIR |
| By: |
Nick Flynn |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£10.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
039333886X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780393338867 |
| Publisher: |
WW NORTON & CO |
| Pub. date: |
4 March, 2011 |
| Pages: |
284 |
| Description: |
This dazzling, searing, and inventive memoir explores the challenges of becoming a father in the age of terror. |
| Synopsis: |
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." |
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US |
| Imprint: |
WW Norton & Co |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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