{"product_id":"the-afterlife-a-memoir-paperback","title":"The Afterlife: A Memoir - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDonald Antrim\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Choice\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the winter of 2000, shortly after his mother's death, Donald Antrim began writing about his family. In pieces that appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and were anthologized in \u003ci\u003eBest American Essays, \u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Afterlife\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDonald Antrim\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eElect Mr. Robinson for a Better World, The Hundred Brothers, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Verificationist, \u003c\/i\u003e and is a regular contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 15, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45330671796326,"sku":"9780312426354","price":23.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/NFdCVU9oMVdDWkpSRVkrcnE4U1BkUT09.webp?v=1774374643","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/the-afterlife-a-memoir-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}