Review: Itsy Bitsy Yellow Polka Dot Bikini
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 20, 2011
Frank is waiting in a tree that he has rented to get the perfect shot of a celebrity couple kissing.  He's the papparazi and he'll be sitting pretty if he gets the shots he really wants, and he's willing to wait for the couple to come out of the house to the pool.  His back hurts from sitting in the tree so long, but Frank continues to wait. With the money from these pictures, he can pay off just about everything he owes.  This is big.Finally the couple comes out, after Frank has dropped his camera and broken it, so he has to use another camera.  He shoots several rolls of film of the woman in a yellow bikini with red polka dots which looks familiar to Frank, and the man who is with her.After Frank gets his pictures of the celebrity couple, from there on out I have to admit that I just don't get it.  Is this horror, supernatural, insanity or all of them?  I won't give away any spoilers, but I don't understand what happens and I don't understand the ending. The description says this may become a modern classic, but I don't see how, if a reader doesn't understand the story.  It's fine until near the end, and that's when I got lost.It's a well-written story by a Swedish author who has written a lot of other short stories and at least two novels. It's constructed well, but I just can't seem to put two and two together on this one.