num_pages: 240
description: In ten sharply drawn tales, Madison Smartt Bell expands his masterly, inventive, and deftly textured fictional landscape to portray a collection of America's dispossessed characters. "Barking Man is a humane and mature book, the work of an important and talented writer."--The New York Times Book Review.
language: English
title: Barking Man and Other Stories
titlecomplete: Barking Man and Other Stories (Contemporary American Fiction)
genres: Fiction, Short Stories
ratings_count: 65
publisher: Penguin Books