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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Vintage Books
Publication date
April 1, 1998
Pages
206
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780679769422
ISBN-10
0679769420
Dimensions
0.75 by 5.25 by 8 in.
Weight
0.50 lbs.
Availability§
Out of Print
Original list price
$15.95
§As reported by publisher
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
A surreal, satiric literary novel brings together one hundred odd brothers, including a sculptor who works in burning steel and a New Age psychoanalyst, for a light supper and a ritual sacrifice at their family estate. Reprint. 20,000 first printing. Tour. NYT.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: There's Rob, Bob, Tom, Paul, Ralph, and Phil; Siegfried, the sculptor in burning steel; blind Albert and ninety-three-year-old Hiram; Foster, the New Age psychoanalyst; and Maxwell, the tropical botanist, who, since returning from the rain forest, has seemed a little screwed up somehow.  When PEN/Faulkner Award finalist Donald Antrim brings them and their eighty-nine equally eccentic kinsmen together in the decaying library of their family estate for cocktails, a light supper, and a little ritual sacrifice, the result suggests a high-speed collision between The Brothers Karamazov and the Brothers Marx.  Moving swiftly from slapstick to horror and back, The Hundred Brothers establishes Antrim as one of our most mordantly and satanically playful young writers, whose insights into the agonies of kinship are as serious as they are hilarious.
Editions
Hardcover
from Crown Pub (February 1, 1997)
9780517703106 | details & prices | 206 pages | 5.50 × 7.75 × 1.00 in. | 0.65 lbs | List price $21.00
About: Explores a world of family relations, histories, and mysteries in the story of Doug, who gets together with ninety-eight of his ninety-nine brothers for an evening of dinner, drinking, reminiscences, and shared awareness
About: Explores a world of family relations, histories, and mysteries in the story of Doug, who gets together with ninety-eight of his ninety-nine brothers for an evening of dinner, drinking, reminiscences, and shared awareness
Paperback
The price comparison is for this edition
Reprint edition from Vintage Books (April 1, 1998)
9780679769422 | details & prices | 206 pages | 5.25 × 8.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.50 lbs | List price $15.95
About: Explores a world of family relations, histories, and mysteries in the story of Doug, who gets together with ninety-eight of his ninety-nine brothers for an evening of dinner, drinking, reminiscences, and shared awareness
About: Explores a world of family relations, histories, and mysteries in the story of Doug, who gets together with ninety-eight of his ninety-nine brothers for an evening of dinner, drinking, reminiscences, and shared awareness
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