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(0)Donald Antrim
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"A searing and brave memoir that offers a new understanding of suicide as a distinct mental illness. As the sun lowered in the sky one Friday afternoon in April 2006, acclaimed author Donald Antrim found himself on the roof of his Brooklyn apartment building, afraid for his life. In this moving memoir, Antrim vividly recounts what led him to the roof and what happened after he came back down: two hospitalizations, weeks of fruitless clinical trials,...
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"A dark, suburban fantasy . . . richly funny, even whimsical, and bizarrely familiar." —The New Yorker
In the seaside community of Donald Antrim's Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World, the citizens are restless. The mayor has fired stinger missiles into the Botanical Garden reflecting pool, and his public execution was a messy affair. As these hawkish suburbanites fortify their houses with deadly
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Los personajes que protagonizan estos siete cuentos son profesores, abogados, artistas sin obra, hombres atravesados por duelos que no parecen sanar, parejas que se desmoronan y amantes que se encuentran en departamentos prestados para representar vidas que esconden su propia fragilidad. Los trajes a medida, los tragos en bares y los ansiolíticos son para ellos una forma de mantener las apariencias, como si todos estuvieran al borde de la caída....