Vincent Tigreat Tigreat itibaren Querecual, Venezuela
The Jump Artist is a wordplay of shadow and light cast over the fictionalized life of photographer Phillip Halsmann. The prose is spare and gorgeous, a surgeon's prose, cutting story with its clean, sharp blade. Phillip comes alive in all his deeply disturbed and disturbing fumbling through life. I wonder, though, if the coldness of the writing comes from Ratner's decision to stay so close to truth in writing this fiction. I never felt invited inside the pages.