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Hall, Sarah, 1974-
Subjects
Tattoo artists -- Fiction.
British -- New York (State) -- Fiction.
Mothers and sons -- Fiction.
Single mothers -- Fiction.
Immigrants -- Fiction.
Coney Island (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Morecambe and Heysham (England) -- Fiction.
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Hall, Sarah, 1974-
Tattoo artists -- Fiction.
British -- New York (State) -- Fiction.
Mothers and sons -- Fiction.
Single mothers -- Fiction.
Immigrants -- Fiction.
Coney Island (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Morecambe and Heysham (England) -- Fiction.
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The electric Michelangelo / Sarah Hall.
by
Hall, Sarah, 1974-
Perennial, 2005, c2004.
Call #:
FICTION
HAL
Subjects
Tattoo artists
--
Fiction
.
British
--
New
York
(
State
)
--
Fiction
.
Mothers and sons
--
Fiction
.
Single mothers
--
Fiction
.
Immigrants
--
Fiction
.
Coney Island (
New
York
, N.Y.)
--
Fiction
.
Morecambe and Heysham (England)
--
Fiction
.
ISBN:
9780060817244 (trade pbk.)
0060817240 (trade pbk.)
Edition:
1st Harper Perennial ed.
Description:
340 p. ; 21 cm.
Notes:
"Finalist for the Man Booker Prize"--Back cover.
Summary:
"Cy Parks is the Electric Michelangelo, an artist of extraordinary gifts whose medium happens to be the pliant, shifting canvas of the human body. Fleeing his mother's legacy
--
a consumptives' hotel in a fading English seaside resort
--
Cy reinvents himself in the incandescent honky-tonk of Coney Island in its heyday between the two world wars. Amid the carnival decadence of freak shows and roller coasters, enchanters and enigmas, scam artists and marks, Cy will find his muse: an enigmatic circus beauty who surrenders her body to his work, but whose soul tantalizingly eludes him."--Publisher description.
Genre:
Psychological
fiction
.
Historical
fiction
.
Bildungsromans.
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