The Emerald Light in the Air by Donald Antrim

Skip to product information
1 of 1

The Emerald Light in the Air by Donald Antrim

Regular price
Checking stock...
Regular price
Checking stock...
Summary

A devastatingly funny, achingly tender short story collection from a MacArthur Foundation 'Genius' Grant recipient and an acknowledged master of the form

The feel-good place to buy books
  • Free delivery in Australia
  • Supporting authors with AuthorSHARE
  • 100% recyclable packaging
  • Proud to be a B Corp – A Business for good
  • Buy-back with Ziffit

The Emerald Light in the Air by Donald Antrim

An unfaithful husband goes out to buy flowers for his wife, while across town a new couple, both survivors of difficult childhoods, find comfort together in other people's apartments. On the edge of a university campus, a group of students are brought together by their ageing drama professor, whose predilection for pot and crush on his star pupil threaten to tip their performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream into a surreal and dangerous farce. And in the title story, a bereaved art teacher drives into the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia intending to throw away his ex-girlfriend's paintings. Exquisitely composed and executed with great empathy, Antrim's richly detailed fictional worlds explore the joy and emotional chaos of life as we live it.
DONALD ANTRIM is the author of the novels Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World, The Hundred Brothers (both published by Granta) and The Verificationist, as well as the memoir, The Afterlife. The New Yorker named him as among the twenty best writers under the age of forty. Antrim has received grants and awards from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He is a frequent contributor to the New Yorker. Antrim teaches in the MFA program at Columbia University. He lives in Brooklyn.
SKU Unavailable
ISBN 13 9781847086495
ISBN 10 1847086497
Title The Emerald Light in the Air
Author Donald Antrim
Condition Unavailable
Binding type Paperback
Publisher Granta Books
Year published 2014-11-06
Number of pages 176
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
Note Unavailable