Pen & Ink: Tattoos & The Stories Behind Them
Isaac Fitzgerald & Wendy MacNaughton
Language: English
Published by Bloomsbury, New York, 2014
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used

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Inscribed on Title page in black pen,"To Toni & Joseph! Rock & Roll!! Wendy MacNaughton" First U.S. edition 2014 stated with complete number line. 7 1/2 x 8 3/4 Book; binding tight, minor bump to bottom rear edge else boards straight and clean; minor bump to top corner else text free of marks, appears barely read. No dust jacket as issued. Illustrated. Photos upon request. Packed well and shipped in a sturdy box.
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- Title
- Pen & Ink: Tattoos & The Stories Behind Them
- Author
- Isaac Fitzgerald & Wendy MacNaughton
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury, New York
- Publication year
- 2014
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- None as issued
- Signed
- Inscribed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1620404907
- ISBN 13
- 9781620404904
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
Every tattoo tells a story, whether the ink is meaningful or the result of a misguided decision made at the age of fourteen, representative of the wearer's true self or the accidental consequence of a bender. These most permanent and intimate of body adornments are hidden by pants legs and shirttails, emblazoned on knuckles, or tucked inside mouths. They are battle scars and beauty marks, totems and mementos.
Pen & Ink grants us access to the tattoos-and the stories behind them-of writers Cheryl Strayed and Roxane Gay; rockers in the bands Korn, Otep, and Five Finger Death Punch; and even a porn star. But it also illuminates the tattoos of the ordinary people living in our midst-from professors to thrift store salespeople, cafe owners to librarians, union organizers to administrators-and their extraordinary lives.
Curated and edited by Isaac Fitzgerald, who sports twelve tattoos himself, each story “is like being let in on . . . secrets by . . . strangers who passed you on the street or sat across from you on the train” (Strayed) and features Wendy MacNaughton's gorgeously rendered full-color illustrations of the tattoos on black-and-white drawings of the bearer's body. At its heart, beneath its colorful skin, Pen & Ink is an exploration of the decision to scar one's self with a symbol and a story.
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