Review: Beware-even the underdog turns
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 17, 2012
Very lyrical expression-very poetic imagery. A short tale, but a most delightful one, and a good introduction to this author.Joey is a young adolescent boy living a horridly dysfunctional life, a member of a farm family basically stuck a century earlier. Although the family has mechanized equipment, its view of its members is subhuman. Only the daughter, obese and torturous, is prized; and poor Joey is made to work, literally, dawn to dusk, and in and around all that work is whipped and tormented. Until-he is bitten by a creature he calls The Thing-and no one believes him-until...THE SCREAM-A Werewolf Tale