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The B-movie in the title story is the 1932 classic Island of Lost Souls. Charles Laughton plays a sadistic scientist whose experiments in the House of Pain have turned a tropical island's wild animals into a tribe of beast-men. Laughton tries to strengthen his piteous creations' tenuous grip on humanity by leading them in pep rallies. Their eyes frantic with a hunger for conviction and approbation, the beast-men repeat the refrain, "Are We Not Men? Are We Not Men?" You don't know if you should laugh or cry. Spencer's stories make you do both. In a review of his first novel, The Lost Son, Kirkus declared that Spencer "achieves what most debut writers merely attempt: He gives personal experience universal meaning and makes small-town tragedy profound." Whether the setting is a failing farm, a prison yard, a leaky apartment complex, or an overflowing canal in Venice, these thirteen stories offer the full range of Spencer's gifts, establishing him as a master of the form and one of our finest comic writers. No one else could make a B movie not only profound, but profoundly, achingly funny. All of Spencer's characters painstakingly construct their own Houses of Pain. They, too, are year

Author

Brent Spencer

Publisher

New York: Arcade Pub. ; [Boston]: Distributed by Little, Brown and Co.

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9781559703574

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities