The Tattoo Artist: A Novel

The Tattoo Artist: A Novel
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In 1970, Sara Ehrenreich boards a small plane and returns to New York City with much fanfare; she will be featured in Life magazine. She has not left Ta'un'uuâ€“the South Seas island upon which she and her husband, Philip, were marooned during a stormâ€“in more than thirty years. Sara doesnâ€™t know that man has landed on the moon. She has never seen a ballpoint pen. Her body is covered, head to toe, in tattoos.

Flashback: itâ€™s 1918 and Sara, a shop girl and aspiring artist, meets Philip, a wealthy member of the avant-garde elite. The two fall in love, marry, and collaborate to make art, surrounded by socialites and revolutionariesâ€“until the Depression cripples not just Sara and Philip, but most of their patrons. When Philip is offered a job gathering masks from the South Seas, they jump at a chance to escape Americaâ€™s sorrows, traveling to Taâ€™unâ€™uu for what they think will be a weekâ€™s stay.

The rest is historyâ€“a history Sara records on her skin through the traditional tattoos that become her masterpiece and provide an accounting of her days. Narrated in vivid and starkly moving prose, The Tattoo Artist reminds us of the unforeseeable forces that shape each human life.
Country USA
Brand Vintage
Manufacturer Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781400078448
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2006-10-17
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781400078448

Country	USA
Brand	Vintage
Manufacturer	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9781400078448
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2006-10-17
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781400078448

The Tattoo Artist: A Novel

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