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The Reenactments (2013)

by Nick Flynn(Favorite Author)

4.18 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0393344355 (ISBN13: 9780393344356)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

review 1: The initial project, as the book presents itself, is fascinating--a book that gets meta multiple times removed. It's filled with fascinating thoughts on neurobiology, on trauma, on memory and how it preserves itself. The book never lags, and its moments of brilliance are unforgettable--Flynn's father asking De Niro, "So you do a little acting?" and the final scene in the book particularly stand out.
review 2: Once again Nick Flynn manages somehow to use a memoir as the starting point and core of something so much bigger and more profound. Such a shame that the film "Being Flynn" had little or no theatrical release here in Australia. "The Reenactments" completes the triptych that Flynn began with "Another Bullshit Night in Suck City" and "The Ticking is the Bomb... more", pausing only to offer us another book of poems, "The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands". Read them all, read everything he writes, it's that good. less

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