· The Electric Michelangelo is a work of unusual imaginative power and range, and it deserves a wide readership.’ The Guardian Blindingly swell, like Stendhal describing the Battle of Waterloo, or Jack Kerouac’s description of parking cars in a crowded lot or T.E. Lawrence when he cuts loose and sends thousands of noble Arabs roaring across unknown desert www.doorway.ru Sarah Hall author of The Electric Michelangelo. Synopsis. 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 . · Cy Parks, the "electric Michelangelo" of the novel's title, is a tattoo artist, born in the early years of the last century and seduced, when little more than a boy, by the siren song of his Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins.
Sarah Hall (born ) is an English novelist, and poet. Her critically acclaimed second novel, The Electric Michelangelo, was nominated for the Man Booker www.doorway.ru lives in Norwich, in eastern England. THE ELECTRIC MICHELANGELO. By Sarah Hall. pp. HarperPerennial. Paper, $ THE human body's largest organ is its skin: at an average of around 20 square feet, an ample if challenging canvas. Find The Electric Michelangelo by Hall, Sarah at Biblio. Uncommonly good collectible and rare books from uncommonly good booksellers.
The Electric Michelangelo is at once a fascinating study of both character and career. Author Sarah Hall lovingly chronicles the life of tattoo artist Cyril Parks from childhood through later adult life. The novel is set on the norhthern coast of England and later moves to the bawdy atmosphere of Coney Island in Brooklyn, NY. Sarah Hall author of The Electric Michelangelo. Synopsis. 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'. Cy Parks, the "electric Michelangelo" of the novel's title, is a tattoo artist, born in the early years of the last century and seduced, when little more than a boy, by the siren song of his.
0コメント