The Afterlife : After Death Paperback / softback
by Donald Antrim
Paperback / softback
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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 her relentless deterioration, Donald Antrim embarks on this strange, marvellous memoir in an attempt to make sense of his mother and her legacy. A series of tragic-comic adventures in psychological dysfunction, Antrim's personal journey takes him wandering across the Southern states of America, tracing the bust-ups, reconciliations, and migrations of his warring parents.
Gradually he unpicks the stories of his childhood, and the characters: his handsome sportsman uncle; his hardworking, bewildered Episcopalian grandparents; and his mother herself - alarming, melodramatic, manipulative, reckless and brave.
This is a vivid, unmissable Technicolor slideshow of a memoir.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:224 pages
- Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication Date:29/05/2008
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- ISBN:9780349118703
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:224 pages
- Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication Date:29/05/2008
- Category:
- ISBN:9780349118703