Thorne Smith's imaginative novel "Skin and Bones" takes the concept of suffering for one's art to a whole new level. This classic book contains the humorous and fantastical story of Mr. Quintus Bland, the eminent photographer, whose efforts to perfect X-ray film had, one evening, the unfortunate effect of leaving Mr. Bland in the position of an X-ray film himself;in other words, him found himself no more than a walking skeleton. Bland's flesh does not merely become invisible but intangible. Can he make a life worth living with this condition?
