DONALD ANTRIM—The Afterlife—1st Ed HC—"Faulkner on Acid, Nabokov on speed"

Description: • For Your Consideration: • A First Edition, First Printing in HARDCOVER of: • “THE AFTERLIFE: A MEMOIR” (FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX, 12006) (HARDCOVER, First Edition, First Printing) • BY DONALD ANTRIM • ABOUT THIS TITLE: • A finalist, 2007, for the NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD. • “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.” —THE PUBLISHER• “ANTRIM’s novels are subversive, anarchic, digressive, provocative, comically outrageous. Think VIRGINIA WOOLF stoned, FAULKNER on acid, NABOKOV on speed. In THE AFTERLIFE, ANTRIM gives us something altogether more grounded, and for that reason all the more disturbing: a ‘true’ account of his childhood and, in particular, his anguished relationship with his mother, LOUANNE ANTRIM, a woman whose life is one long tale of sound and fury, and whose bequest to her son is the task of working out what, if anything at all, it signifies…. The result is a powerful, tender, entirely compelling portrait of familial dysfunction and its long, painful legacy.” —REBECCA ABRAMS, THE GUARDIAN (UK) • “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 • “DONALD ANTRIM’s three books of fiction—ELECT MR. ROBINSON FOR A BETTER WORLD, THE HUNDRED BROTHERS, and THE VERIFICATIONIST— are sly exercises in unfettered fabulation, at once wildly inventive and meticulously controlled. They are witty, elegant and elusive constructions and, like much other work in the anti-realist, post-post-modernist mode, decidedly cool to the touch. But along with a few other 40-something, Brooklynesque male writers—the JONATHANS FRANZEN and LETHEM, most notably—ANTRIM has turned, in his nonfiction, toward a reckoning with the complicated grief brought on by the loss of a complicated parent.”—A. O. SCOTT, NEW YORK TIMES • “An acclaimed novelist, ANTRIM reckons with his complicated grief in this tender, often darkly comic memoir.”—ISHAN TAYLOR, NEW YORK TIMES • “An elegant memoir about the author’s turbulent relationship with his erratic, irascible, alcoholic, and otherwise maddening artist-mother—who could sometimes be nurturing, even smothering…. At the heart of all lies the mother, a woman who mystifies and enrages the author even as she approaches death. A luminous meditation on the past, the enigmas of family and the tangled mystery of love.” —KIRKUS REVIEWS • “A memoir glimmering with hard-won beauty and alive with meaning.” ―NEWSDAY • “An unsettling yet exhilarating read.” ―USA TODAY• “ANTRIM writes the best sentences of any writer now working: balanced, complex, digressive, surprising, dynamic, seemingly self-supporting (that is, existing for their own beauty and born of a unique inspiration that you too would follow if you had his gift for expression), but, as you find when you read on, what you thought were grace notes or jokes or just unforgettable and sheer oddball observations are in fact keenly plotted essentials subtly woven into the plot of the book. The style can sound with grand resonance--his prose is haunted by rhythms of great prose stylists like THOMAS DE QUINCEY and writers like HENRY GREEN with an ear for both casual and telling dialogue—but his eye is contemporary and in the darkest of family scenarios both deeply felt and comic. With his great powers of observation he can move through landscapes you couldn't have seen--Florida coastal towns in the seventies, Black Mountain North Carolina in the final years of the past century--and see it so keenly that you can be tricked into thinking you grew up there too: this too is a function of his style, which can arrest your attention at key moments, the way SCORSESE can move the camera so you never forget the shot. “The material here is of the darkest you can venture through—the broken legacy of artistry and alcoholism—and ANTRIMdoesn’t shy from any of its most painful moments. But for all that, the book is achingly light and filled with love however undeceived—silk out of pain. Read this book. It’s one of the few that will speak to the ages of our age.” —KEVIN CONLEY, AMAZON REVIEW • “His universe bends—it is definitely bent—but always toward greater absurdity (in both funny and frightening guises)…. One way to situate ANTRIM is to see him as among those writers ([GUY] DAVENPORT…was one, LYDIA DAVIS is another) who have taken [DONALD] BARTHELME’s techniques and pushed them further. Of course, that describes only one dimension of ANTRIM’s gift….” —JOHN JEREMIAH SULLIVAN, NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE • • For other details about this book, please see below. • TITLE: “THE AFTERLIFE: A Memoir” AUTHOR: DONALD ANTRIM TYPE: HARDCOVER PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX (New York), 2006 EDITION: First Edition, First Printing* *RE: On the Copyright Page, the statement “First edition, 2006” & this Number Row: “1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.’ PAGES: 195ISBN: 0-374-29961-7 NOTE: THIS BOOK is not an ex-library copy nor a Book-of-the-Month-Club edition. 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