The tattooed girl

a novel

by

307 pages

English language

Published Jan. 22, 2004 by Fourth Estate.

ISBN:
978-0-00-717077-7
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OCLC Number:
53122591

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3 stars (1 review)

Celebrated but reclusive author Joshua Seigl must hire an assistant due to failing health. But he doesn't expect Alma Busch -- an attractive woman with bizarre tattoos covering much of her body. Naivete and anti-Semitism clash in this tragedy of thwarted erotic desire.

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3 stars

What a strange and complex book! A young woman whose hands and body are covered with tattoos, a wealthy and reclusive writer who suffers from a degenerative nerve condition, a schizophrenic sister. The two faces of modern America, one affluent, sophisticated, the other poor, wild.
The story is constantly poised between hate and love. Justice (or I should say Nemesis) prevails at the end. A gripping and somehow depressing story.

The Tattooed Girl is Oates's 31st novel of about 90 other books.

Subjects

  • Authors -- Fiction.
  • Recluses -- Fiction.
  • Young women -- Fiction.
  • Antisemitism -- Fiction.
  • Love-hate relationships -- Fiction.
  • Adult child abuse victims -- Fiction.