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The Afterlife : A Memoir by Donald Antrim (2007, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Picador
ISBN-10
0312426356
ISBN-13
9780312426354
eBay Product ID (ePID)
57075374
Product Key Features
Book Title
Afterlife : a Memoir
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2007
Topic
Personal Memoirs, Parenting / Motherhood, Literary
Genre
Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
6.7 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
" 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 Afterlifeis 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, 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., The book is very funny when it wants to be, but in between it is rueful. . . . It's Antrim's best book so far.
Dewey Edition
22
TitleLeading
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Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
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., 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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