Tattoo (Thompson, Earl) Review

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(More customer reviews)"Tatoo" is the second book in Earl Thompson's sweeping tale of a young man coming of age in the underside of the 1940's.This is my favorite of all three, and the one that received the most media coverage in its first publishing.
Thompson wasn't afraid to write of the people he knew, and the characters he created are never one-dimensional -- they eat, sleep, drink, fight, and indulge in sex.This is what life was really like for so many hard-working people during the WWII era, despite the rosy message musicals of that time force-fed the public.
Steinbeck, Faulkner, and Dreiser are lauded as great novelists for their accurate display of human plight.Thompson is no less prolific and realistic, but because of his depiction of raw sex, I'd bet his novels will never be taught in any public school.The stark sexual themes -- including incest and rape -- will offend the masses but will never appeal to the "Debbie Does Dallas" set.Still,his protagonist is so real and the story so fun that this ranks high on my "Top 10 read every year" list.

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TATTOO continues the earthy, honst, and ultimately triumphant story begun by Earl Thompson in A Garden of Sand. It is an epic account of a generation--America in the 1940s.

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