Author(s): Joyce Carol Oates

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'That Tattooed Girl' is as startlingly sharp as it is tender...the pain of the inarticulate is given a voice so piercingly real it prickles the blood. - Observer A celebrated but reclusive author, young but in failing health, Joshua Seigl reluctantly realizes that he can no longer live alone. 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