*Karla, or The Weight Liftress * is her portrait drawn in a series of five sketches, first as a student athlete, then as a young woman in a dead-end job, then as a partner in a happy marriage, then as an adventurer in Paris, and finally as an old woman reviewing her life from a bed in a dilapidated ...

*Karla, or The Weight Liftress * is her portrait drawn in a series of five sketches, first as a student athlete, then as a young woman in a dead-end job, then as a partner in a happy marriage, then as an adventurer in Paris, and finally as an old woman reviewing her life from a bed in a dilapidated nursing home.