The dead fathers club / Matt Haig.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Viking, 2007Edition: 1st American edDescription: 328 p. ; 22 cmISBN:- 0670038334
- 9780670038336
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | Fiction | Haig, Matt | Available | 33111005263419 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A ghost story with a twistÂa suspenseful and poignantly funny update of the Hamletstory Eleven-year-old Philip Noble has a big problem: His dad, who was killed in a car accident, appears as a bloodstained ghost at his own funeral and introduces Philip to the Dead Fathers Club. The club, whose members were all murdered, gathers outside the Castle and Falcon, the local pub that PhilipÂs family owns and lives above. PhilipÂs father tells him that Uncle Alan killed him and he must avenge his death. When Philip realizes that Uncle Alan has designs on his mom and the family pub, Philip decides that something must be done. But itÂs a much bigger job than he anticipated, especially when he is caught up by the usual distractions of childhoodÂa pretty girl, wayward friends, school bullies, and his own self-doubt. The Dead Fathers Clubis a riveting, imaginative, and quirky update of ShakespeareÂs great tragedy that will establish Matt Haig as a young writer of great talent and imagination.
Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 2006.