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The Afterlife

A Memoir

Author: Donald Antrim

The Afterlife

The Afterlife

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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...

Page Count
208
On Sale
05/15/2007

Book Details

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.

Imprint Publisher

Picador

ISBN

9780312426354

In The News

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

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