num_pages: 195
description: The author of Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World and The Verificationist presents a series of observations about the state of consciousness as it is altered by memories, fantasies, and alcoholism, in a portrait of the author's family that partially comes to terms with the nature of addiction and the limitations of self-healing.
language: English
title: The Afterlife
titlecomplete: The Afterlife
genres: Biography, Family, Nonfiction, Memoir, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 540
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Ambassador Book Award
category: Autobiography, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Autobiography
publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux