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Title Statement | The tattooed girl: a novel / Joyce Carol Oates. |
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Author | Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- |
Publication | New York: HarperCollins, c2003. |
Edition | 1st ed. |
Extent of Item | 307 p. |
ISBN | 0060531061 |
Other Number | 1276909 |
General Notes | "Ecco." |
Summary | When his health starts to fail, Joshua Seigl, a celebrated, but reclusive author, must give up his independence. He hires Alma Busch as his assistant, a sensuous young woman with a troubled past and bizarre tattoos covering her body. Unaware that she is a virulent anti-Semite, Alma stirs in him a complex of emotions, and the two characters clash in a tragedy of thwarted erotic desire. |
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By Topic | Authors--Fiction |
Abused women--Fiction | |
Antisemitism--Fiction | |
Man-woman relationships--Fiction | |
By Genre | Psychological fiction |