{"product_id":"the-pallbearers-club-a-novel-isbn-9780063069916","title":"The Pallbearers Club: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Paul Tremblay delivers another mind-bending horror novel . . . \u003cem\u003eThe Pallbearers Club\u003c\/em\u003e is a welcome casket of chills to shoulder.” – \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA cleverly voiced psychological thriller from the nationally bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eThe Cabin at the End\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eof the World\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSurvivor Song\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat if the coolest girl you’ve ever met decided to be your friend?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArt Barbara was so\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003enot\u003c\/em\u003e 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\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003ethought the Pallbearers Club was cool. And she brought along her Polaroid camera to take pictures of the corpses.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOkay, that part was a little weird.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDecades later, Art tries to make sense of it all by writing \u003cem\u003eThe Pallbearers Club: A Memoir\u003c\/em\u003e. But somehow this friend got her hands on the manuscript and, well, she has some \u003cem\u003eissues\u003c\/em\u003e with it. And now she’s making cuts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeamlessly blurring the lines between fiction and memory, the supernatural and the mundane, \u003cem\u003eThe Pallbearers Club \u003c\/em\u003eis an immersive, suspenseful portrait of an unusual and disconcerting relationship.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Uncertainty is Tremblay’s stock-in-trade. Over the last decade, he has grown from hot new thing to horror icon without compromising on his uniquely inexplicable nightmares.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[A] deliciously confusing thriller.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWeekend Edition (NPR) on The Pallbearers Club\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Creepy, funny and Gen X all the way. . . . A masterful psychological thriller.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNPR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Tremblay ensnares the readers so well one doesn't dare stop reading.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLocus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Pallbearers Club\u003c\/em\u003e constructs a maze of uncanny ambiguity and disquiet—a Nabokovian labyrinth that sustains its mystery past the point few writers but Paul Tremblay would risk.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRamsey Campbell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Any new book by Paul Tremblay makes me sit up straight. Part of the joy is not knowing what to expect from each new story.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAdam Nevill, author of The Ritual and No One Gets Out Alive\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Pallbearers Club \u003c\/em\u003esits right at the intersection of the unreliable call and response of memory and truth. Replete with the trademark brilliant characterization, intricate switchback plotting and general weirdness you get with a Paul Tremblay novel, Art and Mercy’s friendship—and bickering over what may or may not be a vampire story—will haunt you long after the last page.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA. G. Slatter, award-winning author of All the Murmuring Bones\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An extraordinary novel. This book is fun, warm, sad, and most of all, profoundly humane: it subverts horror tropes and real-life certainties in one go. I loved it and I need to shout it in the streets.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrancesco Dimitri, author of The Book of Hidden Things and Never the Wind\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A uniquely devastating portrait of love, loss, family, and friendship that will equally enchant and terrify readers. Paul Tremblay reinvents the horror genre with this masterpiece of blurred fact and fiction—a story where we stare into the gaping, black maw of darkness and something quietly beckons us to look deeper.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEric LaRocca, author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This is horror at its most heartfelt, horror that confirms our fears and flaws, the insecurities that we carry with us from our formative years.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePriya Sharma, the award-winning author of Ormeshadow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Paul Tremblay delivers another mind-bending horror novel. . . . \u003cem\u003eThe Pallbearers Club\u003c\/em\u003e is a welcome casket of chills to shoulder.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A stark evocation of a lonesome New England life. . . While Tremblay is a detailed and deft writer, this is his greatest embrace yet of the tools available in literature alone. And oh, what he’s done with it.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVol. 1 Brooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A jaunty, character-driven exploration of a complicated friendship, [\u003cem\u003eThe Pallbearers Club\u003c\/em\u003e] is more emotional than [Tremblay’s] previous novels, and more innovative. . .[T]his delightfully morbid and surprisingly emotional horror novel demonstrates Tremblay’s literary range.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"It is clear from the start that this is not your average psychological thriller. Truly, it is difficult to pigeonhole this novel as one specific genre, as it encapsulates qualities from many distinctly different areas of writing. Blurring the lines between fiction and memory, supernatural and ordinary, Paul Tremblay's latest work is nothing short of enthralling.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eErie Reader\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe Pallbearers Club\u003c\/em\u003e is a sinuous, mercurial novel that shifts under your very eyes like a trick of the light. This is Paul Tremblay's most dazzling book yet, and that's saying something. I was left breathless.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCatriona Ward, author of Last House on Needless Street and Sundial\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Melancholy and funny as well as dark and complex, this novel will be the dark hit of the summer. Unique in terms of style and format, \u003cem\u003eThe Pallbearers Club\u003c\/em\u003e occupies a peculiar place between a thriller, a horror novel, and a narrative that will make you question everything.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Tremblay has earned worldwide acclaim because he is able to seamlessly combine reality with speculative elements, and his newest may be his most prescient yet. . . Gorgeously written about terrible things, the relatively short \u003cem\u003eSurvivor Song\u003c\/em\u003e is a good choice for fans of pandemic epics . . . and novels that probe themes of friendship, family, and social commentary amidst chillingly realistic horror.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The most beautiful and heartbreaking funeral I've been to in a long time, \u003cem\u003eThe Pallbearers Club\u003c\/em\u003e is melancholy, funny, and very cruel, but you won't regret carrying this coffin.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGrady Hendrix, bestselling author of The Final Girl Support Group\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Books can have teeth. A whole mouthful of them. \u003cem\u003eThe Pallbearers Club\u003c\/em\u003e has a whole \u003cem\u003elifetime \u003c\/em\u003eof them.\"  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eStephen Graham Jones, New York Times bestselling author of My Heart is a Chainsaw\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A new novel from Paul Tremblay is always cause for celebration. \u003cem\u003eThe Pallbearers Club\u003c\/em\u003e has it all--growth and decay, metatextual playfulness and earnest terror, dark hilarity and deep melancholy. For a book that looks death squarely in its sightless eye this one is just brimming over with life and inventiveness. I loved floating and falling through time with Art Barbara and Mercy.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKaren Russell, New York Times bestselling author of Swamplandia! and Orange World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“One of the best, most intriguing horror novels I’ve read in many years, \u003cem\u003eThe Pallbearers Club\u003c\/em\u003e is also Paul Tremblay’s crowning achievement, sure to be embraced by literary fiction devotees and horror lovers with equal fervor. It’s a high-wire act most writers would never attempt.”  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author of Road of Bones and Ararat\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In his brilliant new novel, Tremblay takes on the well-mined small-town, coming-of-age horror trope, transforming it into something so original, it elevates the entire genre.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe Pallbearers Club\u003c\/em\u003e is Tremblay at his most audacious best. It's such a sneaky mindblower! It'll burrow deep inside you, and by the end, you'll be wondering if the room you're sitting in, the people you're talking with, or even your own memory, are real. This book is horror's answer to Nabokov's \u003cem\u003ePale Fire\u003c\/em\u003e.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSarah Langan, author of Good Neighbors\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Absolutely riveting. I haven’t been able to put it down.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eStephen King on Survivor Song\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eSurvivor Song\u003c\/em\u003e is a small horror story. A personal one. A fast and terrible one that is committed beautifully to the page. . . . It exists in a pandemic world where all choices are bad ones. Where things unravel faster than you can possibly believe. Where happy endings are transactional: they come with a cost. Because \u003cem\u003eSurvivor Song\u003c\/em\u003e isn’t a fairy tale. It's a horror story.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNPR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“For the past few years, Paul Tremblay has been setting the standard for modern horror. His genius is that he never forgets the core of a great horror novel resides first in its characters. In \u003cem\u003eSurvivor Song\u003c\/em\u003e, he revitalizes the zombie novel by keeping the focus narrow and intimate: two women, in the space of a few hours, just trying to get across town. The result is heartfelt and terrifying, in a narrative that moves like a bullet train.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNathan Ballingrud, author of North American Lake Monsters and Wounds\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Morrow","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44889747423461,"sku":"NP9780063069916","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780063069916.jpg?v=1730231829","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-pallbearers-club-a-novel-isbn-9780063069916","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}