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'.
In this carnival environment of roller-coasters and freak-shows, Cy
becomes enamoured with Grace, a mysterious immigrant and circus
performer who commissions him to cover her entire body in tattooed
eyes. Hugely atmospheric, exotic and familiar, The Electric
Michelangelo is a love story and an exquisitely rendered portrait
of seaside resorts on opposite sides of the Atlantic by one of the
most uniquely talented novelists of her generation.
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