Overview
Bestselling author Nick Flynn delivers a dazzling, searing, and inventive memoir about becoming a father in the age of terror. In 2007, as Flynn awaits his daughter's birth, the release of the Abu Ghraib photographs exacerbates his already growing outrage and obsession with torture, leading him on a journey to Istanbul to meet some of the Iraqi men depicted in the photos. A memoir of profound self-discovery, Flynn's book artfully interweaves passages from his childhood, his relationships with women, and his history of addiction into his dark 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 as Flynn examines the need to run from love and the need to embrace it again.
Full Product Details
Author: Professor of Creative Writing Nick Flynn ,
Scott Brick ,
Scott Brick
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Imprint: Blackstone Publishing
Edition: Unabridged edition
Dimensions:
Width: 13.50cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 18.80cm
Weight: 0.100kg
ISBN: 9781441715821
ISBN 10: 1441715827
Publication Date: 18 January 2010
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
""Flynn recalls and records in a stunningly beautiful cascade of images...A striking collection of memories that will mystify, enlighten, trouble, and amaze."" -- ""Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"" ""Flynn's life is so volcanic and his writing style so kinetic and punchy that others will be drawn into this gripping personal narrative."" -- ""Publishers Weekly"" ""In The Ticking Is the Bomb, poet and memoirist Nick Flynn, author of the cult favorite [Being Flynn], marries the tragedies he survived in childhood with being an expectant father, gorgeously focusing these themes within the larger lens of the uses of terror and torture and notions of freedom and justice in post-9/11 America."" -- ""Elle"" ""Scott Brick...does a marvelous job of maneuvering through the narrative's various parts, keeping his delivery rhythmically consistent while simultaneously projecting the right amount of emphasis and emotion. Brick's performance will hold listeners' attention...For those liking experimental nonfiction, memoirs, and political reflections."" -- ""Library Journal (starred review)""
Author Information
Nick Flynn is an award-winning poet and author most recently of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, winner of the PEN/Martha Albrand Award. Scott Brick, an acclaimed voice artist, screenwriter, and actor, has performed on film, television, and radio. He attended UCLA and spent ten years in a traveling Shakespeare company. Passionate about the spoken word, he has narrated a wide variety of audiobooks. winning won more than fifty AudioFile Earphones Awards and several of the prestigious Audie Awards. He was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine and the Voice of Choice for 2016 by Booklist magazine.
