The Tattooed Girl

2003 novel by Joyce Carol Oates
978-0061136047

The Tattooed Girl is a 2003 novel by American writer Joyce Carol Oates.

Plot

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

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

  1. ^ Litt, Toby (January 23, 2004). "When more is more". The Guardian. Retrieved April 3, 2022.
  2. ^ Harrison, Sophie (July 13, 2003). "'Now I Have Saved Her'". The New York Times. Retrieved April 3, 2022.
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Works by Joyce Carol Oates
The Wonderland Quartet
The Gothic Saga
  • Bellefleur (1980)
  • A Bloodsmoor Romance (1982)
  • Mysteries of Winterthurn (1984)
  • My Heart Laid Bare (1998)
  • The Accursed (2013)
Other novels
Novellas
  • Black Water (1992)
  • First Love: A Gothic Tale (1996)
  • Beasts (2001)
  • The Corn Maiden: A Love Story (2005)
  • A Fair Maiden (2010)
Short story collections
Short stories
Young adult fiction


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