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Original Title:	The Tattoo Artist: A Novel
ISBN:	140007844X (ISBN13: 9781400078448)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize (2005)

The Tattoo Artist

Jill Ciment

Paperback | Pages: 224 pages

Rating: 3.88 | 938 Users | 168 Reviews

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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'uu–the South Seas island upon which she and her husband, Philip, were marooned during a storm–in more than thirty years. Sara doesn’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: it’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 revolutionaries–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 America’s sorrows, traveling to Ta’un’uu for what they think will be a week’s stay.

The rest is history–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.

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Title	:	The Tattoo Artist
Author	:	Jill Ciment
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 224 pages
Published	:	October 17th 2006 by Vintage
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Novels. Book Club

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Ratings: 3.88 From 938 Users | 168 Reviews

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Dude, if I were some big-shot Hollywood-type chick, my people's ass would be on the phone this instant with Jill Ciment's people's ass securing the movie rights to this book. The Tattoo Artist would make such an awesome film! It's so intensely visual in this way that would be great to see shot with a huge budget and put on a big screen. Awesome face tattoos! Period settings! Jungle and beaches! Sex! Violence! Extreme weather! Arty stuff! And because it was short and did have very tight structure

Saras story has left me wanting to run away to New York, get a new tattoo and then travel to the South Seas. The imagery of this book was so beautiful, Ciment really transported me to another world and I was heartbroken to leave it when I finished the book. I really hope this is made into a movie soon!

I'm a fan of any book combining travel in the unknown, complicated relationships, recovery from inexplicable loss, and human oddities. Where the heck is the film, already?

I have never read anything like this, the story was wholly unique. It had a sort of haunting, macabre feel to it.

The premise of the plot caught my attention and was perhaps the strongest part of the book. Avant-garde Jewish artist Sara and her wealthy husband Philip live, work & play in Manhattan until the Depression sends them off to the South Pacific in search of native art. They end up stranded on an island with a people who tattoo their life stories on their flesh.Ciment dwelt so long on Sara's New York past that I felt a bit cheated. Sara lived on the island of Tu'un'uu with its people for 30

A great premise for a story, and at times 'The Tattoo Artist' was quite engaging, but overall the story fell flat. I felt that the author didn't dig deep enough one never truly gets to know/understand the main character Sara, or the people from the island where she lives. Also, at times Ms. Ciment would finish sections of the novel with these supposedly deep one sentence or so pronouncements, and quite frankly it got to be a bit irritating. I could feel the author's presence more than the

I really wanted to like this book because the concept is so intriguing but it didn't impress me the way I thought it would. Ciment seemed to brush over a lot of the important details that the reader would want to know - such as, the relationships that the main character made over the course of the 30 years on the island....this book left me with much to be desired. Not nearly enough detail.