Cathie pelletier biography samples
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Don`t be frightened off by the title. ”The Funeral Makers” is not a morbid expose of the American way of death, but a morbidly funny first novel that satirizes, ridicules and maligns not just our solemn death rituals but almost everything else that`s sacred about American life, including family solidity, rustic comforts and small-town piety.
A few cautionary words, however, may be in order about Cathie Pelletier`s humor, which is, more often than not, on a deliberately low level; and those who are frightened off by gross irreverence–on such subjects as outhouses, nose-blowing and adolescent acne, not to mention ”funeralology”–are advised to seek comic diversion elsewhere, say in the latest Peter de Vries.
For the less fastidious, however, there may not be a funnier novel this year than Pelletier`s mordant joyride through rural Maine, ”the land of pulp and guns.” Though the book is set in the late `50s, on the eve of the Kennedy presidency, the town of Mattagash is still so isolated and primitive that the most cultivated residents have yet to discover indoor plumbing; as one observes, it`s ”a long, long way from the Garden of Eden.” But it is deep in the heart of the Gothic North, the region made infamous by Carolyn
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Northeaster
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