The Afterlife - by Donald Antrim (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>From "a fiercely intelligent writer" ("The New York Times") comes a wry, poignant story of the difficult love between a mother and a son. Antrim comes to terms with--and fails to comes to terms with--the nature of addiction and the broken states of loneliness, shame, and loss that remain beyond his power to fully repair.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>A <i>New York Times Book Review</i> Editors' Choice</b> <p/>In the winter of 2000, shortly after his mother's death, Donald Antrim began writing about his family. In pieces that appeared in <i>The New Yorker</i> and were anthologized in <i>Best American Essays, </i> 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. <p/><i>The Afterlife</i> 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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"<i>The Afterlife</i> 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." --<i>Francine Prose, People</i> <p/>"The book is very funny when it wants to be, but in between it is rueful. . . . It's Antrim's best book so far." --<i>Joan Acocella, The New York Review of Books</i> <p/>"A memoir glimmering with hard-won beauty and alive with meaning." --<i>Newsday</i> <p/>"An unsettling yet exhilarating read." --<i>USA Today</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Donald Antrim</b> is the author of <i>Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World, The Hundred Brothers, </i>and<i> The Verificationist, </i> and is a regular contributor to <i>The New Yorker</i>. He lives in New York City.
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