Pearl
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Publisher Description
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
There's something strange about Walter Kopple's farm. It begins with his grandson, who senselessly murders one of Walter's pigs. But then rumours spread that Walter's grandson heard a voice commanding him to kill.
And that the voice belongs to a most peculiar creature: the pig named Pearl.
Walter has always been afraid of the strangely malevolent Pearl. But as paranoia takes hold and the townspeople descend on Walter's farm with violent wrath, they begin to discover that true evil wears a human face.
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PRAISE FOR JOSH MALERMAN
'Brilliant, insanely compelling' DAILY MAIL
'Fast-paced, frightening' NEW YORK TIMES
'One of the best horror stories published for years' EXPRESS
'Brilliant ... Malerman has a knack for ratcheting up the tension with just a word or two' METRO
'Daring readers should find this tale of a malevolent telepathic pig to be a memorable experience' BOOKLIST
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Bestseller Malerman (Bird Box) offers a muddy, meandering horror tale that nevertheless contains some memorably upsetting images. The residents of small town Chowder, Mich., grapple with the presence of Pearl, a telepathic pig with the ability to control the minds of humans and drive them mad with hallucinations. Among those affected are a farmer's daughter who fights to protect her family from the pig that terrified her in her youth, a trio of stoned teenagers who explore Pearl's farm only to uncover mind-melting horrors, and a broken businessman who must finally confront the malevolent force that has haunted him for a decade. As the bodies pile up, the townspeople's paths converge at Pearl's barn, where they must maintain enough sanity to defeat Pearl once and for all. The novel suffers from thin characterization and a lack of narrative momentum, and though Malerman's exclamatory style lends itself well to the scarier moments, the story never quite manages to work its way around to coherence. This is best suited for Malerman's die-hard fans.
