Name: The Verificationist
ISBN: 9780679769439

Donald Antrim

An incident at a pancake house drives physchotherapist Tom out of his body, whereupon his spirit drifts to the ceiling and begins to analyze his psychologist colleagues. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.

A Novel

The Verificationist

Recommended for all Thomas Bernhard fans - similar detached narrator, but more comic & less whiny. 

Jeremy Boyd

An incident at a pancake house drives psychotherapist Tom out of his body, whereupon his spirit drifts to the ceiling and begins to analyze his psychological colleagues.

Gary Homewood

With a New Introduction by George Saunders A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year It is early spring, and Tom has called together his fellow psychologists at the Krakower Institute for their biannual pancake supper—a chance for likeminded analysts to talk shop and casually unburden themselves over flapjacks. But, as Tom knows (at least subconsciously), his brainy colleagues are a little on edge—simmering with romantic tension and professional grievance, their stew of conflicting ego and id just might boil to the surface before the pretty waitress brings their next coffee refill. When Tom tries to provoke a food fight, a rival colleague locks him in a therapeutic hold, triggering a transcendent if totally bizarre transformation that will free Tom to confront his greatest pleasures and fears. Darkly funny and beautifully written, The Verificationist confirms Donald Antrim as one of America's best and most original authors.

The Verificationist A Novel

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