espooky@espookyFinished 7/10
Antrim clearly had tons of fun with this. Reminds me of Nicholson Baker's The Mezzanine, but without some of the supremely exciting attention to detail. Doesn't outstay its welcome.
The Verificationist
Donald Antrim179 pages · ISBN 9780375408229 · 2000Sprawl rating
Not enough ratings yetRead 1 reviewTom is our narrator - a seemingly adequately analyzed psychotherapist who, during a night-long pancake dinner with colleagues, finds himself locked in an embrace with Bernhardt, the towering father figure of the group. Bernhardt is merely trying to keep Tom from starting a food fight, but the effects are disastrous: in an out-of-body experience, Tom floats up to the ceiling and from there looks down on himself and his cronies. Over the course of the night, he watches as his friendships, his marriage, even his professional identity, unfold and unravel until, in a catastrophic and inevitable tandem ascent and regression, he loses his very sense of himself as a man.
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