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The Tattooed Girl

by Joyce Carol Oates
The Tattooed Girl
The Tattooed Girl

Passion, prejudice, twisted love in stark prose.

The Tattooed Girl by Joyce Carol Oates is a compelling exploration of complex human relationships. If you're intrigued by the nuances of empathy, entangled with the harshness of societal judgment, this novel will draw you in. Joyce Carol Oates doesn't hold back in delivering a multi-layered story that captivates with its examination of the human condition, making you ponder the paradoxes of love and hate, and the spaces between them. It's an intense read that stays with you long after the last page.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

The Tattooed Girl

by Joyce Carol Oates
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ISBN: 9780007170784
Authors: Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher: HarperPerennial
Date of Publication: 2004-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Contemporary, Literary Fiction
Related Topics: Literature, Literary Criticism, Race
Goodreads rating: 3.32
(rated by 3521 readers)

Description

Joshua Seigl, a celebrated but reclusive author, is forced for reasons of failing health to surrender his much-prized bachelor's independence. Advertising for an assistant, he unwittingly embarks upon the most dangerous adventure of his privileged life. Alma Busch, a sensuous, physically attractive young woman with bizarre tattoos covering much of her body, stirs in Seigl a complex of emotions: pity? desire? responsibility? guilt? Unaware of her painful past and her troubled personality, Seigl hires her as his assistant. As the novel alternates between Seigl's and Alma's points of view, the naïve altruism of the one and the virulent anti-Semitism of the other clash in a tragedy of thwarted erotic desire. With her masterful balance of dark suspense and surprising tenderness, Joyce Carol Oates probes the contemporary tragedy of ethnic hatred and challenges our accepted limits of desire. The Tattooed Girl may be her most controversial novel.
 

Passion, prejudice, twisted love in stark prose.

The Tattooed Girl by Joyce Carol Oates is a compelling exploration of complex human relationships. If you're intrigued by the nuances of empathy, entangled with the harshness of societal judgment, this novel will draw you in. Joyce Carol Oates doesn't hold back in delivering a multi-layered story that captivates with its examination of the human condition, making you ponder the paradoxes of love and hate, and the spaces between them. It's an intense read that stays with you long after the last page.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.