The problem is, Mercy has a LOT of issues with the accuracy, implications and conclusions of Art’s pages – and takes it upon herself to scribble corrections and observations in the margins. In any case, having discovered the manuscript, Mercy naturally wants to read Art’s memoir – and she turns out to be a major character in his reflections. To add to the complexity, that we can see the manuscript at all is because the memoir was found by Art’s oldest friend, Mercy Brown. The main premise of “The Pallbearers Club” is that we’re reading an unpublished memoir written by a Massachusetts/Rhode Island man named Art Barbara. Night Shyamalan – Tremblay has gained a well-deserved reputation for wonderfully expanding the possibilities of horror fiction.ĭitto for “The Pallbearers Club,” a wonderful, sad, funny and frightening story that (sort of) contains its own punk rock soundtrack, “handwritten” notes in the margins and, if we’re honest about it, more than a few metaphorical flashbacks to Tremblay’s own conflicted teenage years. For his latest novel, “The Pallbearers Club,” dizzily ascending horror writer Paul Tremblay found himself juggling numerous tangents and constructs in his effort to make it all work.įortunately, he’s really good at this stuff.Īs the author of the metafictionally fantastic “A Headful of Ghosts,” the prescient pandemic novel “Survivor Song” and the suffocating “The Cabin at the End of the World” – soon to be a film from M.
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