{"product_id":"the-afterlife","title":"The Afterlife","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eThe Afterlife\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eDonald Antrim\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780312426354\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003ePicador\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2007\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e208\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Choice\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\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\n\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.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"The Afterlife | Donald Antrim | Paperback | 9780312426354 | New | Memoir 1767439","offer_id":50768227434754,"sku":"1767439","price":30.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/71ZSNDpNQuL.jpg?v=1792109702","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/the-afterlife","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}