The Electric Michelangelo by Sarah Hall

The Electric Michelangelo by Sarah Hall

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

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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.

Hall, Sarah: - Sarah Hall is Professor of Economic Geography at the University of Nottingham, having been educated at the Universities of Cambridge and Bristol. Her work focuses on advancing cultural economy approaches to understanding of markets, power and elites under conditions of finance-led capitalism. Supported by funding from the Economic and Social Research council, the British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust and the Nuffield Foundation, her research mostly centres on London′s international financial district and its relations with North America, Europe and, increasingly, China. Her work has been pubished in a number of leading academic journals. She was appointed an Editor of the journal Goeoforum in 2013 and held a British Academy Mid Career Fellowship in 2015-2017.

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ISBN 13	9780060817244
ISBN 10	0060817240
Title	The Electric Michelangelo
Author	Sarah Hall
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Year published	2005-10-11
Number of pages	368
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