Barking Man

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Publication Year:
2011

ISBN-13: 9781453235454

<DIV><DIV><b>Ten tales of misfits in big cities and lonely backwaters, striving to free themselves from traps of their own making</b></div><DIV>&#160;</div><DIV>In each of Bell&rsquo;s ten stories, characters struggle through trying times, captives of their own bad decisions or plain bad luck. In &ldquo;Black and Tan,&rdquo; a farmer&rsquo;s fortitude after the tragic death of his family leads him to become a savior of delinquent boys. The title story charts a London student&rsquo;s crumbling psyche. And in &ldquo;Petit Cachou&rdquo; hustlers and panhandlers in the French Riviera experience the darker side of life on a seemingly perfect stretch of the Mediterranean coastline. While depicting characters both sympathetic and hopeless, Bell&rsquo;s remarkable insight makes for a vivid rendering of civilization&rsquo;s many frayed edges.</div><DIV>&#160;</div><DIV><i>Barking Man</i> is the author&rsquo;s second collection of stories, and presents Bell&rsquo;s writing at its most unforgettable.</div></div>