Volume 53, Number 10 · June 8, 2006

Between Comedy and Horror

By Joan Acocella
The Afterlife
by Donald Antrim

Farrar, Straus and Giroux,192 pp., $20.00

Donald Antrim, as we know from his novels, has a way with openers. Here are the first two sentences of his new book, which is not a novel, but a memoir, entitled The Afterlife:



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