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Críticas

"An ambitious, fearless novelist. The "Funeral Makers" established Cathie Pelletier as one of the funniest novelists at work in this country today, but now she has clearly emerged as one of the very best." - The Washington Post

"A writer with a genius for vernacular." - Detroit Free Press

"Cathie Pelletier generates the sort of excitement that only writers at the very top of their form can provide." - Stephen King

"Cathie Pelletier's brilliantly drawn true-to-life characters break your heart and make you laugh at the same time." - Fannie Flag, author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe"

"Nobody walks the knife-edge of hilarity and heartbreak more confidently than Cathie Pelletier." - Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls

"One of my favorite novelists." - Wally Lamb

"A morbidly funny tale." - People

"The "Funeral Makers" completely satisfies...a clear-eyed yet passionate examination of life in an isolated small town, where the road ends." - Newsday

"A generous and genuine entertainment...funny and wrenching." - The New Yorker

"Cathie Pelletier is absolutely, inherently funny, yet she can walk the tightrope between humor and grief without once losing her balance.
" - The Los Angeles Times

Reseña del editor

"A crazy, rollicking whoop of a book, written with a poet's sensibility and deeply wacky down-home wisdom."-Lee Smith, author of The Last Girls

A century after the impulsive McKinnon brothers set out to tame the Canadian wilderness and instead landed in Mattagash, Maine, their madcap legacy reigns supreme. It's 1959, and Pearl and Sicily McKinnon have gathered to plan a funeral for Marge, their older sister dying from the rare disease beriberi, thanks to her eccentric diet.

Pearl, who skipped town with big-city dreams only to marry a funeral director, soon clashes with the long-suffering Sicily, who herself is coping with an unfaithful husband. To make matters worse, Sicily's teenage daughter is lusting after the town's blackest sheep, a ne'er-do-well twice her age.

Brimming with darkly quirky humor and irresistible spunk, The Funeral Makers explores the inescapable ironies of American life and family dynamics and captures the spirit of a world that is as once familiar and quickly fading from view.