The Tattooed Girl | The Tattooed Girl

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Author: Joyce Carol Oates
First Published: 2003
Type of Work: Novel
Time of Work: 2003
Setting: Carmel Heights, a suburb of Rochester, New York
Principal Characters: Alma Busch, Joshua Seigl, Dmitri Meatte, Sondra Blumenthal, Jet
Genres: Long fiction, Novel
Subjects: New York, United States or Americans, Authors or writers, Education or educators, Twenty-first century, World War II, Jews or Jewish life, Anti-Semitism, Women, Lower classes, Reading, Sick persons, Idealism, Nazism or Nazis, Holocaust, Jewish, Morality or morals, Jews and Gentiles, Concentration camps, Tattoos
Locales: New York

The Tattooed Girl, Joyce Carol Oates’s thirty-first novel, explores the uncomfortable connection between violence and love and the nature of hatred and bigotry. Joshua Seigl is an eccentric, wealthy, rather reclusive man in Carmel Heights, an upper-class suburb of Rochester, New York. He is the only son of a European Jew and an American Gentile. As a young man, Joshua achieved fame and adulation for The Shadows, a stream-of-consciousness novel about the Holocaust, loosely based on his father’s stories of his grandparents’ experiences in the concentration camp at...

The Tattooed Girl | The Tattooed Girl

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