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Title: yak and prattle
Review: Tristan Egolf's Lord of The Barnyard was what modern lit badly needed someone not obsessed with overly perfect prose and crystal clear simple sentences. I worried the follow up would be a disappointment. Skirt in The Fiddle is a fun swift read with a main character-Charlie who is duped into accepting a gig playing for a band called Volstagg defined by Egolf as "corporate-Satanic Limburger metal" and abandons his violin playing ending up in a flophouse. He also ends up bagging rats through the sewers for money-he is paid by the rat just an example of the way Egolf finds the oddball in the oridinary. Another example of Egolf's prose is a line on page 55 "watching him yak and prattle" this is what I enjoyed about Egolf's writing these fun sentences and clever witty prose not just dry and informative language. This a nice comical romp.
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