The Afterlife

Title: The Afterlife
Author: Donald Antrim
ISBN: 9780312426354
Publisher: Picador
Published: 2007
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 208
Condition Note: New from the publisher
Publisher Description:

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.