The Dead Fathers Club
by Matt Haig
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Author: Matt HaigEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-12-18
ISBN: 0143112945
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Book Review: Do The Dead Lie?
Summary: 5 Stars
This was a great read from Matt Haig. Loosely based on Shakespeare's Hamlet, the story follows 11 year old Phillip Noble who's lost his father in an automobile accident. Soon after, his father appears to him as a ghost, revealing that he was murdered by his brother and tells Phillip to avenge his death. The story proves to be much more complicated than that as Phillip must discover the difference between what is the truth and what is a lie, all while dealing with his crush on a teacher, the two bullies who harass him, a girl who likes him, and his uncle who slowly becomes part of he and his mother's life, all while trying to live up to the demands his father's ghost is making of him.
Haig's mythology of the Dead Father's Club is superb and the novel unfolds quickly, as most of the chapters are very short. The narrative style took some getting used to, as it's written entirely from the viewpoint of Phillip. The lack of some punctuation and quotation marks around the dialog was a little disconcerting at first, but the deeper I got into the book, the less I noticed it. Haig's descriptions are all very excellent and realistic from his narrator's point of view.
Haig took the story in directions I hadn't expected, which made the novel all the more compelling to me. The book plays with the notion of what is true and what is false, what is real and what is imagined in a very clever and interesting way. It's also about how life continues unabated in the aftermath of a tragedy. I thought Haig handled this particularly well. The ending took me completely by surprise, which is rare. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and would highly recommend it.
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