{"product_id":"9780140273908","title":"7 Tattoos: A Memoir in the Flesh","description":" Peter Trachtenberg's \u003cb\u003eSeven Tattoos: A Memoir in the Flesh\u003c\/b\u003e is much more than the memories of an eloquent writer. It's wild anthropology, eclectic theology, literary observation, and a treatise on the uses of body modification and tattooing. Even Trachtenberg's most harrowing and absurd experiences become universal through his illuminating prose.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs a Jew drawn to the ritual of Catholicism, plagued by its guilt and craving its absolution, he gets a tattoo of the wound of Christ. An unfilial son and regretful lover, he marks himself with the Archangel Michael, who drove Adam and Eve from Paradise. \"Most tattoos are signifiers of the past, commemorating events that have already transpired. That's how I see most of mine,\" Trachtenberg explains. \"But tattoos may also act upon the future, protect the body from impending danger or consecrate it for some arduous task ahead.\"  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach chapter in \u003cb\u003eSeven Tattoos\u003c\/b\u003e explores the theme evoked by the corresponding tattoo: death, sacrilege, primitivism, rebellion, atonement, sadomasochism, downfall. Each of Trachtenberg's seven tattoos is a totem, a print the world has left on him that he has chosen to display on his body. Like fresh ink, \u003cb\u003eSeven Tattoos\u003c\/b\u003e is striking, bold and indelible.\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47008583254256,"sku":"9780140273908","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780140273908_p0.gif?v=1763642321","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780140273908","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}