by Donald Antrim (Author)
Having accidentally inspired the local suburbanites to draw and quarter the town's blood-thirsty Mayor, Pete Robinson - civic-minded schoolteacher and enthusiastic historian of the Medieval Inquisition - embarks on a tenuous election campaign. But his sleepy town has entered a period of crisis; the local park is littered with landmines, the neighbours are building deadly moats around their homes, and his beautiful wife, Meredith, has discovered dark and powerful talents within herself, which threaten to transfigure their once serene lives forever. In amongst this chaos, can Mr Robinson satisfy the terrible will of the people? By turns funny and phantasmagorical, fiercely intelligent and imaginative, Donald Antrim's first novel of suburban civics turned macabre is a new American classic.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
Publisher: Granta Books
Published: 14 Feb 2013
ISBN 10: 1847086527
ISBN 13: 9781847086525
Book Overview: 'A dark, suburban fantasy ... richly funny, even whimsical, and bizarrely familiar' - The New Yorker