SOURCE: "Misfits and Outcasts," in Washington Post Book World, April 15, 1990, pp. 7-8.
In the mixed review below, McGrath ponders the themes of abuse and vulnerability in Barking Man, suggesting that "the events that befall Bell's misfits and outcasts lack significant power in either existential or literary terms."
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