Fat Skeletons

by Ursule Molinaro

Mara is a translator. In her Greenwich Village apartment she successfully renders her native Czech into best-selling English, until one fine night she notices alarming similarities between her own... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1897959028
• ISBN13: 9781897959022
• Release Date: August 1994
• Publisher: Serif Publishing
• Length: 143 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Terrific characterization, mind-bending style

Fat Skeletons isn't a very big book, so it's appropriate that you seem interested withing five pages or so. And there's a good reason - the style is witty and transfixing. You won't find a capital letter, the word "and" written out, or many completed sentences. What reads is something like a confessional poem constricted into paragraphs, creating real intimacy around Mara. Which we barely need considering the vivid specificity of her life. Witness the scene in which she outtalks a sleazebag on a train in six languages - it shows Mara's prickly independent streak while reading like a mournful memoir. Still, it's hard to deny the book loses steam as it goes along. Luckily, its first half is so enticing, you barely notice - there's enough steam left over.