The Pallbearers Club

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Call Number: Fiction / Tremblay, Paul, Adult Book / Fiction / Horror / Tremblay, Paul
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch, Traverwood Branch

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Tremblay, Paul	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Malletts Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / Horror / Tremblay, Paul	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Traverwood Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / Horror / Tremblay, Paul	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Pittsfield Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / Horror / Tremblay, Paul	4-week checkout	Due 05-21-2024
Westgate Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / Horror / Tremblay, Paul	4-week checkout	Due 05-20-2024

Title page is: The Pallbearers Club : a memoir by Art Barbara. "A memoir" is crossed out in red, and "A novel" written in. "by Art Barbara" is crossed out in red, and "by Paul Tremblay" written in. Throughout the novel, sidenotes are written in red, lines are underlined in red, and "blank" pages are filled with sometimes extensive sections written in red. -- based on perusal of book in hand
"A cleverly voiced psychological thriller about an unforgettable--and unsettling--friendship, with blood-chilling twists, crackling wit, and a thrumming pulse in its veins--from the nationally bestselling author of The Cabin at the End of the World and Survivor Song. What if the coolest girl you've ever met decided to be your friend? Art Barbara was so not cool. He was a seventeen-year-old high school loner in the late 1980s who listened to hair metal, had to wear a monstrous back-brace at night for his scoliosis, and started an extracurricular club for volunteer pallbearers at poorly attended funerals. But his new friend thought the Pallbearers Club was cool. And she brought along her Polaroid camera to take pictures of the corpses. Okay, that part was a little weird. So was her obsessive knowledge of a notorious bit of New England folklore that involved digging up the dead. And there were other strange things--terrifying things--that happened when she was around, usually at night. But she was his friend, so it was okay, right? Decades later, Art tries to make sense of it all by writing The Pallbearers Club: A Memoir. But somehow this friend got her hands on the manuscript and, well, she has some issues with it. And now she's making cuts. Seamlessly blurring the lines between fiction and memory, the supernatural and the mundane, The Pallbearers Club is an immersive, suspenseful portrait of an unusual and disconcerting relationship"--Dust jacket flap.

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Blast that Husker Du! submitted by mwalny on August 8, 2022, 7:39am I love this book! This incredibly written punk rock memoir (novel) was a wonderful, haunting, & sad reflection on life and death.