Donald Antrim
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- Gebräuchlichste Namensform
- Antrim, Donald
- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Antrim, Donald
- Geburtstag
- 1958-09-16
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Sarasota, Florida, USA
- Wohnorte
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Ausbildung
- Brown University
- Berufe
- novelist
professor (Columbia University) - Beziehungen
- Leness, Terry (brother)
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- MacArthur Fellowship (2013)
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A three- or maybe four-star set of six, if you like that sort of thing. But about that one exception, the title story here. It’s been a long time since I put a book down and just exhaled. Simply one of the best short stories I’ve ever read. Antrim packs so much into twenty pages, mingling the interior world of his character with the chain of events he finds himself swept along with. Driving into the country to throw out his ex’s art, he slides off the road, drives along a creek as a storm starts, is mistaken for a country doctor, visits a dying woman’s bedside, tries to help, while remembering his first sex, his first love, his shock treatment for depression, a luminous trip to Italy. It’s about trauma, death, regret, nostalgia, and bumbling through it all as best you can, and it’s beautiful, its sentences vibrating and shining like filaments in a web — full of incidents and connections that are amazing and somehow entirely real and — holy shit, just read the damn thing!… (mehr)