The Afterlife - Hardcover

Antrim, Donald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374299617 ISBN 13: 9780374299613

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2006

Synopsis

The author of Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World and The Verificationist presents a series of observations about the state of consciousness as it is altered by memories, fantasies, and alcoholism, in a portrait of the author's family that partially comes to terms with the nature of addiction and the limitations of self-healing.

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Review:

""The Afterlife" is like nothing else. With tenderness, humor, and insight, Donald Antrim evokes the volatile atmosphere of the home that he and his sister shared with mother Louanne. . . . Should be required reading for everyone who has been haunted by the restless ghosts of those they love most."--Francine Prose, "People"
"The book is very funny when it wants to be, but in between it is rueful. . . . It's Antrim's best book so far."--Joan Acocella, "The New York Review of Books"
"A memoir glimmering with hard-won beauty and alive with meaning."--"Newsday"
"An unsettling yet exhilarating read."--"USA Today"

"The Afterlife" is like nothing else. With tenderness, humor, and insight, Donald Antrim evokes the volatile atmosphere of the home that he and his sister shared with mother Louanne. . . . Should be required reading for everyone who has been haunted by the restless ghosts of those they love most. "Francine Prose, People"

The book is very funny when it wants to be, but in between it is rueful. . . . It's Antrim's best book so far. "Joan Acocella, The New York Review of Books"

A memoir glimmering with hard-won beauty and alive with meaning. "Newsday"

An unsettling yet exhilarating read. "USA Today""

"The Afterlife is like nothing else. With tenderness, humor, and insight, Donald Antrim evokes the volatile atmosphere of the home that he and his sister shared with mother Louanne. . . . Should be required reading for everyone who has been haunted by the restless ghosts of those they love most." --Francine Prose, People

"The book is very funny when it wants to be, but in between it is rueful. . . . It's Antrim's best book so far." --Joan Acocella, The New York Review of Books

"A memoir glimmering with hard-won beauty and alive with meaning." --Newsday

"An unsettling yet exhilarating read." --USA Today

About the Author:

DONALD ANTRIM is the author of Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World, The Hundred Brothers, and The Verificationist. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker, and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. He lives in New York City.

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0374299617
• ISBN 13: 9780374299613
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 195