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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 exp...

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Donald Antrim's mother Louanne was a difficult woman: an operatically suicidal, chainsmoking, delusional alcoholic who even when sober believed that her cat Merlin was a descendant of the Arthurian necromancer. Seeing his own life bound up in...

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Nothing is simple for the men and women in Donald Antrim's stories. As they do the things we all do-bum a cigarette at a party, stroll with a girlfriend down Madison Avenue, take a kid to the zoo-they're confronted with their own uncooperative sel...

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Upon its publication, Assorted Fire Events won a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, and received tremendous critical praise. Ranging across America, taking in a breathtaking array of voices and ex...

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A masterful story collection-heartbreaking and hilarious-from one of America's greatest writers Nothing is simple for the men and women in Donald Antrim's stories. As they do the things we all do-bum a cigarette at a party, stroll with a girlfrien...

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As the sun lowered in the sky one Friday afternoon in April 2006, acclaimed author Donald Antrim found himself on the roof of his Brooklyn apartment building, afraid for his life. In this moving memoir, Antrim vividly recounts what led him to the ...

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As the sun lowered in the sky one Friday afternoon in April 2006, acclaimed author Donald Antrim found himself on the roof of his Brooklyn apartment building, afraid for his life. In this moving memoir, Antrim vividly recounts what led him to the ...

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With a New Introduction by Jonathan Franzen There's Rob, Bob, Tom, Paul, Ralph, and Noah; Nick, Dennis, Bertram, Russell, and Virgil. The doctor, the documentary filmmaker, and the sculptor in burning steal; the eldest, the youngest, and the celeb...

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"e;A dark, suburban fantasy . . . richly funny, even whimsical, and bizarrely familiar."e; -The New YorkerIn the seaside community of Donald Antrim's Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World, the citizens are restless. The mayor has fired sti...

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With a New Introduction by George SaundersA New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the YearIt is early spring, and Tom has called together his fellow psychologists at the Krakower Institute for their biannual pancake supper-a chance for likemi...

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The Dead Father is a gargantuan half-dead, half-alive, part mechanical, wise, vain, powerful being who still has hopes for himself--even while he is being dragged by means of a cable toward a mysterious goal. In this extraordinary novel, marked by...

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In elegant, precise prose Donald Antrim crafts funny, tender stories of men and women disorientated by love, loss, and bouts of sorrow. An unfaithful husband goes out to buy flowers for his wife, while across town a new couple, both survivors of d...

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Having accidentally inspired the local suburbanites to draw and quarter the town's blood-thirsty Mayor, Pete Robinson - civic-minded schoolteacher and enthusiastic historian of the Medieval Inquisition - embarks on a tenuous election campaign. But...

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Ninety-nine brothers (one couldn't make it) gather in their decaying ancestral mansion.There's Rob, Bob, Tom, Paul, Ralph, and Noah; Nick, Dennis, Bertram, Russell, and Virgil. The doctor, the documentary filmmaker, and the sculptor in burning ste...

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Als an einem Freitagabend im April 2006 die Sonne am Himmel untergeht, findet sich Donald Antrim auf dem Dach seines Wohnhauses in Brooklyn wieder - bereit, hinunterzuspringen. Er hängt sich ans Geländer der Feuertreppe, lässt prüfend mit einer Ha...

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Als an einem Freitagabend im April 2006 die Sonne am Himmel untergeht, findet sich Donald Antrim auf dem Dach seines Wohnhauses in Brooklyn wieder ? bereit, hinunterzuspringen. Er hÿngt sich ans Gelÿnder der Feuertreppe, lÿsst prüfend mit eine...

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«Ein Autor von wilder Intelligenz ? ein Albtraum und ein Meisterwerk.» (The New York Times)99 Brüder zwischen 20 und 90 (der hundertste kann nicht) haben sich in der Bibliothek ihres verstorbenen Vaters versammelt, um bei einer leichten Mahlzei...

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«Man wird in diese Geschichte hineingezogen durch die tiefe Menschlichkeit, die Antrim fast unterhalb des Radars hineinschmuggelt.» (The New York Times)In einer amerikanischen Kleinstadt bricht der Schrecken aus. Nachdem Bürgermeister Kunkel ei...

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«Dieser Roman ist so überaus köstlich wie die sirupschweren Pfannkuchen, die seinen Helden schwindeln machen. Ein sehr surreales und sehr witziges Buch.» (The Times)Eine Gruppe von Psychoanalytikern aus Neuengland trifft sich in einem Pfannkuc...

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Alles über meine MutterDonald Antrim ist Schriftsteller in New York und stammt aus einer vollkommen durchgedrehten Familie. Vor allem seine Mutter machte ihm jahrelang das Leben zur Hölle ? als gescheiterte Künstlerin, Kettenraucherin, Alkoholi...

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