The Verificationist by Donald Antrim

The Verificationist by Donald Antrim

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Twenty psychoanalysts and a narrator meet for dinner in a pancake house. The narrator, Tom, finds himself locked in a bear hug by Bernhardt, the father figure of the group. The effects are disastrous as he is forced into an out-of-body experience and watches as his friendships and marriage unravel.

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The Verificationist by Donald Antrim

_______________ '... utterly delicious. A very surreal book and very witty' - The Times 'One of the New Yorker's twenty writers for the twenty-first century, Antrim unmasks the fragility of identity with prodigious wit' - Esquire _______________ Twenty psychoanalysts and a narrator meet for dinner in a pancake house. The narrator, Tom, finds himself locked in a bear hug by Bernhardt, the father figure of the group. The effects are disastrous as he is forced into an out-of-body experience and watches as his friendships and marriage unravel. _______________ 'Antrim shares Vladimir Nabokov's revelry in wordplay, Thomas Pynchon's antic comedy and Donald Barthelme's sense of the surreal - he nonetheless manages to create, with each new novel, a fictional universe that's wholly, truly his own. The Verificationist is yet another tour de force, demonstrating again what makes Antrim's voice so compelling and unique' - Sunday Herald
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ISBN 13 9780747552864
ISBN 10 074755286X
Title The Verificationist
Author Donald Antrim
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published 2001-01-22
Number of pages 192
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.