Search
    Search FictionDB
      Tap cover to enlarge

      The Electric Michelangelo

      by Sarah Hall
      Published
      Oct 2005
      Main Genre
      Literary Literary
      Rating
      Pages
      368
      Buy on Amazon Book

      About This Book

      "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.

      Genres & Themes

      Genres

      General Fiction

      Subgenres

      Historical Literary

      Buy This Book

      Amazon Physical Book | Kindle
      Barnes & Noble Physical Book | Nook
      Bookshop.org Physical Book Apple Books eBook Google Play eBook Kobo eBook Audible Audiobook

      Formats & Editions

      Browse the different covers, formats, and publication history for this title.

      Paperback

      Paperback edition cover
      Trade Paperback
      First Edition Jan 2005 HarperPerennial ISBN13 9780060817244 ISBN10 0060817240
      Buy
      Paperback edition cover
      Paperback
      Mar 2004 Faber and Faber (UK) ISBN13 9780571219292 ISBN10 0571219292
      Buy
      Paperback edition cover
      Paperback
      Mar 2016 Faber and Faber (UK) ISBN13 9780571315611 ISBN10 0571315615
      Buy

      eBook

      eBook edition cover
      eBook
      Dec 2010 Faber and Faber (UK) ISBN13 9780571267644 ISBN10 0571267645
      Buy
      eBook edition cover
      eBook
      Jul 2017 HarperCollins ISBN13 9780062803320 ISBN10 0062803328
      Buy
      eBook edition cover
      eBook
      Jul 2017 Harper Perennial ISBN10 B0719H6RHB
      Buy

      Audio

      Audio edition cover
      Audible
      May 2014 Audible Studios ISBN10 B00KO77WMS
      Buy
      Audio edition cover
      MP3 CD
      Jun 2016 Brilliance Audio ISBN13 9781531839871 ISBN10 1531839878
      Buy
      Audio edition cover
      Audio CD
      May 2020 Brilliance Audio ISBN13 9781799736462 ISBN10 1799736466
      Buy