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    The Pallbearers Club: A Novel
    The Pallbearers Club: A Novel
    The Pallbearers Club: A Novel
    Audiobook10 hours

    The Pallbearers Club: A Novel

    Written by Paul Tremblay

    Narrated by Graham Halstead, Xe Sands and Elizabeth Wiley

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    “Paul Tremblay delivers another mind-bending horror novel . . . The Pallbearers Club is a welcome casket of chills to shoulder.” – Washington Post

    A cleverly voiced psychological thriller 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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateJul 5, 2022
    ISBN9780063069930
    Author

    Paul Tremblay

    Paul Tremblay has won the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, and Massachusetts Book awards and is the nationally bestselling author of The Beast You Are, The Pallbearers Club, Survivor Song, Growing Things and Other Stories, Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, A Head Full of Ghosts, and the crime novels The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland. His novel The Cabin at the End of the World was adapted into the Universal Pictures film Knock at the Cabin. He lives outside Boston with his family.

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    • 3/5
      The narrators were FANTASTIC however....
      This novel is a case of over promising but under delivering. If you're looking for a goth, underdog coming of age story with vampires and vampire-lore..... you won't find it with The Pallbearers Club. The book should have been marketed as a catchy genre bending fictionalized but semi-autobiographical memoir with minor supernatural elements that border on metaphorical at best. There isn't a plot, it's 90% character driven and introspective with very little to move the story along. The author is talented and is a brilliant writer, this book is unlike anything I've read before or I would have rated it lower.

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    • 1/5
      Narration is great. The writing is great. The story is so terribly boring, not thrilling, not entertaining, so bland, so boring. Not sure if the reviews written by the magazines and newspapers were written for this book. I kept waiting for suspense or something entertaining to happen and it literally hasn’t yet. I have 1 hr 24 minutes to go and I’m struggling to finish it. Maybe something interesting will happen.I doubt it though.

      3 people found this helpful

    • 3/5
      By the middle of the book, I was ready to dnf it, but I had hoped if I finished it, I would have a better idea of Art's sad sack story; I didn't. :-/

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      This book built up in anticipation that I haven’t felt in a while, and reading this left me satisfied from beginning to end

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      I truly enjoyed this book, and it works better in audio than I ever would have imagined.

      1 person found this helpful