The Verificationist

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 179, [2]. Quarter-bound black cloth over chiselled red paper-covered boards, lettered in silver to spine; deckled fore-edges. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson with painting detail of Jan Brueghel the Elder's A Woodland Road with Travelers and rear panel blurbs by Annie Proulx and Thomas Pynchon.

Author's third novel. A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year in 2000. A cheerfully cruel novel set in an all-night pancake house where a group of underachieving psychoanalysts with nary a medical degree between them, drink, plot and ponder. Selected by The New Yorker magazine as one of the "Twenty Writers for the 21st Century" (June 1999 issue). "Antrim is in top form with this high-spirited hallucination." –Thomas Pynchon