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Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, The Electric Michelangelo is a hugely atmospheric transatlantic love story from the most uniquely talented novelist of her generation. 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.
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, The Electric Michelangelo is a hugely atmospheric transatlantic love story from the most uniquely talented novelist of her generation. 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.
Sarah Hall
Sarah Hall took a degree in English and Art History at Aberystwyth University, and began to take writing seriously from the age of twenty, first as a poet, several of her poems appearing in poetry...
Geogorilla 09-09-2015
My passion is all things relating to the history of tattooing. I loved reading about Riley and the harsh apprenticeship cy had to endure. I would've like more on this...but, the show must go on! A very sad ending, really unexpected! A very different and easy book to read ????
