I, Fatty: A Novel
by Jerry Stahl
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Author: Jerry StahlEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-07-05
ISBN: 1582345821
Number of pages: 280
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
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Book Review: Engaging, fun, quick read
Summary: 5 Stars
It's a fictional autobiography (although apparently exhaustingly researched - there's a lengthy list of source material in the back) of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, one of the silent film era's biggest stars. He was also one of the era's most infamous men, having been falsely accused of the rape of a woman which lead to her death. Honestly, I got the book more because I have read Stahl's other books and loved them. I didn't know much about Arbuckle other than that Chris Farley wanted to play Arbuckle in a movie around the time that Farley died. In any case, this was a great book, and a little out of character for Stahl. His other books are somewhere in between James Ellroy and Chuck Palahniuk, which is to say completely debauched and thoroughly offensive. In this one, the debauchery remains, but there's a kind of sweetness and naivety to Arbuckle's voice that I didn't at all expect. Even if, like me, you don't know much about Arbuckle, like me, you might find it to be an engaging and quick read.
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