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May 29, 2007 · Celebrated author Joshua Seigl, an idiosyncratic bachelor and confirmed recluse—young but in failing health—reluctantly admits to himself that he must hire a live-in assistant to help him with his increasingly complicated professional and personal affairs.
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- 2003
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Joyce Carol Oates
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.
- Joyce Carol Oates
- English
- United States
- Ecco Press
Jun 17, 2003 · 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.
- (137)
- Hardcover
- Joyce Carol Oates
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In this disjointed tale of race, community, and pride, a teenage black girl named Sybilla Frye is raped and left for dead in the basement of an abandoned New Jersey factory. Inspired by the 1988...
Jan 1, 2003 · THE TATTOOED GIRL is an intense, visceral, yet unexpectedly tender novel about a celebrated but reclusive author, Joshua Siegel. Young but in failing health, Siegel reluctantly admits that he can no longer live alone. He launches a search for an assistant and finds Alma.
- (139)
- Joyce Carol Oates
One day he encounters a young woman with synthetic-looking blond hair and pale, tattooed skin in a bookshop. She stirs something unidentifiable within him -- pity? desire? responsibility? He...
Jun 17, 2003 · Joshua Siegel hires the tattooed girl as his personal assistant, and becomes increasingly dependent upon her due to a debilitating neurological disorder. Alma secretly despises her employer, steals small items from his house and puts things in his food.
- Joyce Carol Oates
