The Tattooed Girl
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| Author | Joyce Carol Oates |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | Ecco Press |
Publication date | 2003 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Pages | 307 pp |
| ISBN | 978-0061136047 |
The Tattooed Girl is a 2003 novel by American writer Joyce Carol Oates.
Plot
[edit]Alma Busch, a 27-year-old woman from Akron, Pennsylvania with mysterious tattoos of unknown origin on her body, arrives in the affluent town of Mount Carmel in upstate New York. She is spotted by a man named Dmitri Meatte, a waiter at "The Café" who become her pimp and boyfriend. Alma meets a novelist named Joshua Seigl, who takes her on as an assistant for his next novel even though she steals and destroys his work and hates him for being Jewish.
Reception
[edit]In a review for The Guardian, author Toby Litt called the novel "a completely gripping tale told in an almost manically propulsive style".[1] Sophie Harrison's review in The New York Times was more critical of its "showy unsqueamishness" and uneven characterization.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Litt, Toby (January 23, 2004). "When more is more". The Guardian. Retrieved April 3, 2022.
- ^ Harrison, Sophie (July 13, 2003). "'Now I Have Saved Her'". The New York Times. Retrieved April 3, 2022.
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