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The Electric Michelangelo

Sarah Hall

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#3312 of 8,085 books · #500 in Historical Fiction

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize (2004).

On 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.

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Publisher
Faber & Faber
ISBN-13
9780571267644
Topics
Coming of ageArt and obsessionLove and identity

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