{"product_id":"the-afterlife-donald-antrim-9780312426354","title":"The Afterlife: A Memoir","description":"\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Donald Antrim\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0312426356\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780312426354\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e St. Martins Press-3PL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/15\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/15\/2007 pg. 24","brand":"Donald Antrim","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44044291309823,"sku":"9780312426354","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bd0453d4-299e-4bae-915e-895eb6add1e0.jpg?v=1684972004","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-afterlife-donald-antrim-9780312426354","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}