<b>The text of this book is not available in this moment.</b><br/><img src="/Content/books/thumbs/7018.jpg" style="margin-top:15px;margin-right:15px;margin-bottom:25px;float:left"><u>Vandover and the Brute</u><br><span>Vandover is a student who succumbs to a gambling addiction. This addiction causes him to divest himself of his cherished possessions and to lose his status in life, whilst his friends prosper. Eventually he is transformed by a strange degenerative lycanthropy, reduced to running back and forth across his apartment, naked, on all-fours. The novel was Norris' first, though published posthumously. Characteristically, it explores the themes of habit and addiction in a heightened "naturalistic" style. </span><div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />