The Tattooed Girl Oates
Joyce Carol Oates poll…?
What is your favorite Joyce Carol Oates book and why? I’m a huge fan of Oates and admire her dialogue on the female experience. I’ve been recently captivated by her novels, especially those written from 2000-present.
I’m voting for “the tattooed girl.” This novel paints such an interesting portrait of hatred, and how hatred can evolve into love. I enjoyed how the female characters are presented through bestial/dog-like allusions.
As a runner up I would choose “Beasts.”
Is anyone else as Oates crazed as I am?
I haven’t read many books by Joyce Carol
Oates so far, but I’d have to say that I love
We were the Mulvaneys. It’s definitely
unique & interesting! 
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The Tattooed Girl: A Novel (P.S.) $5.60 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. Then one day at the bookstore he encounters Alma, a young woman covered with bizarre tattoos, who stirs something inside him. Unaware of h… |
