The Reenactments: A Memoir

For Nick Flynn, that game we all play--the who-would-play-you-in-the-movie-of-your-life game--has been resolved. The Reenactments chronicles the surreal experience of being on set during the making of the film Being Flynn, from his best-selling memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, and watching the central events of his life reenacted: his father's long run of homelessness and his mother's suicide. Flynn tells the story of Robert De Niro's first meeting with his real father in Boston and of watching Julianne Moore attempt to throw herself into the sea. The result is a mesmerizingly sharp-edged and kaleidoscopic literary tour de force as well as a compelling argument about consciousness, representation, and grief.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 01/07/2013
ISBN: 9780393344356
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.90d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2012
Booklist 12/01/2012 pg. 10
New Yorker (The) 02/04/2013 pg. 74