The first half of The Fan Club, like The Prize (1962), interweaves multiple stories. The reader follows the formation of the club as each man's individual sexual disappointments gradually lead him to join the conspiracy.
The next quarter of the novel concentrates in clinical detail on Sharon's repeated ravishment at an isolated cabin. The last quarter flashes between Hollywood where Sharon's rescuers search for clues and the cabin where the abductors' harmony rapidly breaks down.
Wallace attempts one narrative variation: Parts of the story are told through "Adam Malone's Notebook."
Written in the first person.....
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