![]() ![]() The result is a page-turning meditation on human suffering whose spiritual dimension does not become fully apparent until the entire story has been told. At the same time, through its portrayal of the relationship between Christopher and his ferociously protective mother, it offers one of the most affecting accounts of parental devotion I’ve seen in a very long time. Beyond that, it provides a compelling portrait of small-town life, while examining the ways in which lovelessness and systematic abuse eat away at the fabric of family and community life. ![]() It is, of course, a horror novel, and it delivers more than its share of profoundly disturbing moments. Perhaps its most impressive aspect is the confidence with which Chbosky deploys the more fantastical elements of his complex narrative, using the baroque, hallucinatory imagery of horror fiction to tell a very human story with universal implications. Beyond that, Imaginary Friend is a radical departure on virtually every level. To be sure, the underlying sensibility that characterized Wallflower is present in the new book, particularly in its empathetic portraits of people struggling to recover from personal tragedy. an all-out, not-for-the-fainthearted horror novel, one of the most effective and ambitious of recent years. ![]()
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