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The Afterlife

A Memoir

Donald Antrim

Picador, Published: May 2007, ISBN: 978-0-312-42635-4, ISBN-10: 0-312-42635-6,Trim: 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches, 208 pages

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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

In the winter of 2000, shortly after his mother's death, Donald Antrim began writing about his family. In pieces that appeared in The New Yorker and were anthologized in Best American Essays, Antrim explored his intense and complicated relationships with his mother, Louanne, an artist, teacher, and ferociously destabilizing alcoholic; his gentle grandfather, who lived in the mountains of North Carolina and who always hoped to save his daughter from herself; and his father, who married his mother twice.

The Afterlife is an elliptical, sometimes tender, sometimes blackly hilarious portrait of a family--faulty, cracked, enraging--and of a man struggling to learn the nature of his origins.

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"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(s)

Donald Antrim

Donald Antrim is the author of Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World, The Hundred Brothers, and The Verificationist, and is a regular contributor to The New Yorker. He lives in New York City.

photo: Ulrike Schamoni

Excerpt

Chapter One
My mother, Louanne Antrim, died on a fine Saturday
morning in the month of August, in the year 2000. She
was lying in new purple sheets on a hospital-style bed rolled up
next to the green oxygen tanks set against a wall in what was
more or less the living room of her oddly decorated, dark and
claustrophobic house, down near the bottom of a drive that
wound like a rut past a muddy construction site and backyards

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