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8 reviews
Donald Antrim

Picador, 2007

Poweful
I bought this book, never having read anything by Antrim before, in an effort to understand my son's perspective on our relationship. I found it searing and exceptionally well written. The first few chapters seem so odd and quirky to me but even when it gets into more conventional memoir stuff it is completely without self pity or rancour. As a recovering alcoholic, his description of his ...

Le Vérificateur
Donald Antrim, Robert Davreu

Editions de l'Olivier, 2003

The Verificationist: A Novel

16 reviews
Donald Antrim

Vintage, 2001

Taking the novel to a new place
Somehow I think the definitive novel is one that is free to say anything about anything as Antrim does here and in his other novels. The trick is( or the art is) if its enjoyable and interesting. Antrim 'Verificationist' takes writing freedom to it's limits in a wonderful spell-binding way.Strange, beautiful, very funny masterpiece. It seems perfect while being unlike any book one has ever read.

The Hundred Brothers

9 reviews
Donald Antrim

Vintage, 1998

Antrim's best, so far
Most reviewers seem to focus on whether or not this book exemplifies post-modernism and whether or not that's good or bad. Unfortunately, I've never been able to figure out what postmodernism is, so I can't help ya there. All I know is Pynchon and Delillo just confuse me, Vollman makes me laugh but I can't figure out what the hell he's driving at, but Antrim just makes me feel good all over. ...

The Dead Father

9 reviews
Donald Barthelme

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004

Classic Barthelme
"The Dead Father" is a novel by Barthelme who is far more famous for his short stories. But fans of his short stories won't be surprised by anything in The Dead Father. All his trademarks are there: Long pages of odd dialogue, humorous lists, deadpan humor, metafiction, etc. If you are new to Barthelme, I'd recommend "60 Stories" first (his short fiction is better), but "The Dead Father" is ...

Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World: A novel

8 reviews
Donald Antrim

Vintage, 2001

Profound and Original
Donald Antrim is a wonderful original writer who takes the novel to a new and dark place unlike any book you will ever read. Black humor mixed with painful insights on us all it explores the paradoxical world of insanity and real suburban life in a very funny way.

The New Yorker Magazine: September 11, 2001 Issue
Donald Antrim, Jonathan Franzen, ..., 2001

The 9/11 Memorial Issue. Now considered one of the New Yorker Magazine's single most important issues, it is one of the first instant classics in American literary and photographic reportage of the 21st century. Pictorial softcovers, as issued. The cover features the reproduction of the black-on-black lithograph, "9/11/01", by Art Spiegelman, one of the artist's greatest creations. The towers can be seen only against the light and from a certain ...