The Tattoo Artist
of Jill Ciment (Goodreads Author)
Description
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'uuâthe South Seas island upon which she and her husband, Philip, were marooned during a stormâin more than thirty years. Sara doesnât 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: itâs 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 revolutionariesâuntil 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 Americaâs sorrows, traveling to Taâunâuu for what they think will be a weekâs stay. The rest is historyâa 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.
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 224 pages
- Publisher Vintage
- Publication Date October 17th 2006
- First Publication Not informed
- Language English
- ISBN 9781400078448
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
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