Donald Antrim writes darkly comic American fiction and memoir about unstable families, social embarrassment and minds moving towards breakdown. The Verificationist takes place largely during a pancake-house gathering of psychoanalysts, where the narrator becomes convinced he is floating near the ceiling while colleagues continue their ordinary professional tensions below. The Hundred Brothers compresses sibling rivalry and inherited resentment into a gathering of an absurdly large family, while Elect Mr Robinson for a Better World turns suburban civic life into grotesque political chaos. The Afterlife is a memoir about Antrim's mother, alcoholism and family history, and One Friday in April addresses his own suicidal crisis. His prose is controlled, strange and sharply funny even around severe material. His work fits literary absurdism, dark comedy and psychologically unstable first-person fiction. Read more Less
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