Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World - by Donald Antrim (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Originally published in 1993 by Viking Penguin.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>A dark, suburban fantasy . . . richly funny, even whimsical, and bizarrely familiar. --<i>The New</i></b><b> <i>Yorker<br></i></b><br>In the seaside community of Donald Antrim's <i>Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World, </i>the citizens are restless. The mayor has fired stinger missiles into the Botanical Garden reflecting pool, and his public execution was a messy affair. As these hawkish suburbanites fortify their houses with deadly moats and land mines, a former third-grade teacher named Pete Robinson steps forward with a tenuous bid to replace the mayor. But can anyone satisfy the terrible will of the people? By turns funny and phantasmagorical, fiercely intelligent and imaginative, Donald Antrim's story of suburban civics turned macabre is a new American classic.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>Pete Robinson never meant to suggest the drawing -and-quartering of Mayor Kunkel, although he did mention that Toyotas and Subarus might make excellent substitutes for horses. But, after all, the fact that Mayor Jim Kunkel had first fired Stinger missiles into the Botanical Garden reflecting pool, massacring innocent picnickers, did require some kind of response. In this lovely seaside community, Turtle Pond Park is stocked with claymore mines and most houses are fronted by moats swimming with water moccasins or pits filled with wooden spikes.<P>Amid all this bedlam, Pete Robinson, former third-grade teacher and amateur medievalist with a 1:32 scale model Inquisition-era interrogation chamber in his basement, has an epiphany: he should run for mayor. Here, in Donald Antrim's first novel, are the elements that have made him one of the most critically acclaimed writers of our day: the unerringly astute and skewed observations, the precise and brilliant language, and the uncanny ability to create wildly funny narrative out of the margins of our culture.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Entertaining and mischievously imagined . . . Antrim is a wonderful, truly original comic writer." --<i>San Francisco Chronicle</i> <p/>"A slice of sulfurous whimsy... You are draw in because of the depth of human feeling that Antrim smuggles in... almost below the radar level." --<i>The New York Times</i> <p/>"The author's surreal vision is both imaginative and wholly his own . . . A striking literary discovery." --<i>The Boston Globe</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Donald Antrim is the critically acclaimed author of <i>Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World, The Hundred Brothers, </i>and<i> The Verificationist</i>, as well <i>The Afterlife</i>, a memoir about his mother. A regular contributor to <i>The New Yorker</i>, he has also been the recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York Public Library. He lives in New York City.</p>
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