![]() ![]() Perhaps its this cinematic quality that prompted Focus Film to buy the rights to the book. Tremblay explores this subject in a refreshing if not conclusive manner. There is also an element of found footage to Ghosts that made it feel cinematic. Its creepy because mom, dad, doctor, and priest all seem to fail at their jobs. I immediately took to this book for many different reasons not the least of which was that I have always found movies with exorcisms to be creepy in that there is always an element of mental illness that seems to be an acceptable diagnosis that goes ignored. I was first introduced to Paul Tremblay with his novel A Head Full of Ghosts. ![]() It is a book for readers but also and arguably more important it is a book that makes readers. We can engage with his material with such ease we hardly notice its asking so much of us as readers. This is Tremblay’s greatest gift as a writer. ![]() Usually books that offer complex themes and ideas are written in equally complicated prose. It offered answers I was not prepared to hear. It asked questions I was not prepared to answer. It is cold and it is broken but it is one of the best things I have read in very long time. The Cabin at the End of the World is the literary equivalent of the last refrain of this song. The last verse of the classic Leonard Cohen masterpiece Hallelujah he reminds us that “love is not a victory march but its a cold and its a broken hallelujah”. ![]()
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