Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World A Novel

In the lovely seaside community of Donald Antrim's Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World, the residents are restless. The mayor has fired stinger missiles into the Botanical Garden reflecting pool, and his public execution by drawing-and-quartering was a messy affair-Toyotas were used in lieu of horses. As these hawkish suburbanites fortify their houses with deadly motes and landmines, a former third-grade teacher named Pete Robinson steps forward with a tenuous bid to become their mayor. But can anyone satisfy the terrible will of the people? By turns funny and phantasmagorical, fiercely intelligent and imaginative, Donald Antrim's story of suburban civics turned macabre is a new classic of American satire.

Donald Antrim is a regular contributor to The New Yorker, and he has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the New York Public Library. He lives in New York City.

"Entertaining and mischievously imagined . . . Antrim is a wonderful, truly original comic writer." —San Francisco Chronicle

"A slice of sulfurous whimsy… You are draw in because of the depth of human feeling that Antrim smuggles in… almost below the radar level." —The New York Times

"The author’s surreal vision is both imaginative and wholly his own . . . A striking literary discovery." —The Boston Globe