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The electric Michelangelo
Hall, Sarah, 1974-2016
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Beginning as a humble apprentice in Morecambe Bay, Cy flees to America, where he sets up his own tattoo business on the infamous Coney Island boardwalk. In this carnival environment of roller-coasters and freak shows, Cy becomes enamoured with Grace, a mysterious circus performer. 'Glorious.' Observer 'Wildly imaginative.' Independent'Intoxicating.' Financial TimesOn the windswept front of Morecambe Bay, Cy Parks spends his childhood years first in a guest house for consumptives run by his mother and then as apprentice to alcoholic tattoo-artist Eliot Riley. Thirsty for new experiences, he departs for America and finds himself in the riotous world of the Coney Island boardwalk, where he sets up his own business as 'The Electric Michelangelo'. In this carnival environment of roller-coasters and freak-shows, Cy becomes enamoured with Grace, a mysterious immigrant and circus performer who commissions him to cover her entire body in tattooed eyes.Hugely atmospheric, exotic and familiar, The Electric Michelangelo is a love story and an exquisitely rendered portrait of seaside resorts on opposite sides of the Atlantic by one of the most uniquely talented novelists of her generation.
Main title:
The electric Michelangelo / Sarah Hall.
Author:
Hall, Sarah, 1974-, author
Imprint:
London : Faber & Faber, 2016.
Collation:
340 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2004.
ISBN:
9780571315611 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.92
LC class:
PR6108.A49
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
987957