The Verificationist

Donald Antrim

The Verificationist
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Country
United Kingdom
Published
22 January 2001
Pages
192
ISBN
9780747552864

The Verificationist

Donald Antrim

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‘… 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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