The Hundred Brothers

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There's Rob, Bob, Tom, Paul, Ralph, and Noah; Nick, Dennis, Bertram, Russell, and Virgil. The doctor, the documentary filmmaker, and the sculptor in burning steal; the eldest, the youngest, and the celebrated perfect brother, Benedict. In Donald Antrim's mordantly funny novel The Hundred Brothers, our narrator and his colossal fraternity of ninety-eight brothers (one couldn't make it) have assembled in the crumbling library of their family's estate for a little sinister fun. Executed with the invention and intelligence of Barthelme and Pynchon, Antrim's taxonomy of male specimens is in equal proportions disturbing and absurdly hilarious.

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Donald Antrim is the critically acclaimed author of three novels, Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World, The Hundred Brothers (both now published by Granta), and The Verificationist, as well The Afterlife, a memoir about his mother. A regular contributor to The New Yorker, he lives in New York City.