{"product_id":"the-afterlife-a-memoir-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 \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-9290\"\u003eDonald Antrim\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e St. Martins Press-3PL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/15\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\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\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780312426354\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0312426356\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO026000\"\u003ePersonal Memoirs\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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","brand":"St. Martins Press-3PL","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43834551271563,"sku":"9780312426354","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0626\/5100\/7115\/files\/img_33339aed-bdb3-4111-b332-57b14f6569c6.jpg?v=1755664280","url":"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/products\/the-afterlife-a-memoir-9780312426354","provider":"CA Corrections Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}