The Electric Michelangelo

Zusatztext “Hall... is a master wordsmith.” Informationen zum Autor 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.  Klappentext 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. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more. Zusammenfassung “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. ...

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Hall
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.10.2005
• EAN: 9780060817244
• ISBN: 978-0-06-081724-4
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 204 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Romance, Historical romance, Romantic suspense, Historical fiction, Second World War fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Contemporary lifestyle fiction, Narrative theme: Sense of place, United States of America, USA, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), First World War fiction, Historical crime and mysteries, Plays, Playscripts, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Women, FICTION: Historical / General, DRAMA: American / General, FICTION: Romance / Historical / American, FICTION: Romance / Historical / 20th Century, FICTION: Romance / Suspense, FICTION: Coming of Age, FICTION: City Life