The Electric Michelangelo

"Wickedly imagined and richly written. . . . Prose as highly colored as Hall's has to to be savored."--The Independent

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE

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.

Author: Sarah Hall
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 10/11/2005
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.36w x 0.89d
ISBN: 9780060817244

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/08/2005 pg. 211
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2005 pg. 806
Ingram Advance 10/01/2005 pg. 86
Booklist 10/15/2005 pg. 30
New York Times 11/06/2005 pg. 17

About the Author
Hall, Sarah: -

Sarah Hall was born in Cumbria. She is the prizewinning author of six novels and three short story collections. She is a recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters E. M. Forster Award, Edge Hill Short Story Prize, among others, and the only person ever to win the BBC National Short Story Award twice.