Posted on 05/04/08
Heisted by the book
THE DANCER AND THE THIEFBy Antonio SkármetaTranslated by Katherine SilverNorton, 302 pages, $24.95Here is an interesting topic for an essay, one I have pondered while standing in the shower from time to time but will likely never write: Why do some storylines lend themselves equally well to popular novels and films, and others exist almost exclusively within one narrative form and not the other? We have as many road novels as road movies, biographies as biopics, pacy thrillers in both the paperback racks and the multiplexes. But stream-of-consciousness flicks? Slasher novels? Summer tent poles about boomer midlife crisis? Not so much.
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