- Love-hate relationships, Recluses, Fiction, Adult child abuse victims
Celebrated but reclusive author Joshua Seigl must hire an assistant due to failing health. But he doesn't expect Alma Busch -- an attractive woman with bizarre tattoos covering much of her body. Naivete and anti-Semitism clash in this tragedy of thwarted erotic desire.
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Grave, contemporary, spare and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Joyce Carol Oates
- First published
- 2003
- Pages
- 325
- Publisher
- Ecco, HarperPerennial, HarperCollins
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780007170784
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