Author : Angela Woodward
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813196558
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Book Synopsis Ink by : Angela Woodward
Download or read book Ink written by Angela Woodward and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We have extensive accounts, typed out neatly: 'They took me into a dark room and started hitting me on the head and stomach and legs. I stayed in this room for 5 days, naked, with no clothes.'" Angela Woodward's novel Ink tells the story of the two women who spend their days doing that neat typing. Sylvia and Marina, both single mothers, work in a suburban office building, transcribing tape recordings of witness statements describing detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib. Their ordinary preoccupations—problems with the soap in the restroom, the motives of Marina's new love, Mr. Right, and Sylvia's worries about paying for her son's show choir costume—are a mundane backdrop to the violence represented by the transcripts. Woodward layers essayistic explorations of the history of ink and writing materials into the women's tale along with the story of the unfinished masterpiece of a French poet, and a writer's notations about her daily commute and the lake behind her house. Then a new crime is revealed. Ink is an illuminating meditation on what it means to bear witness.