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Description edit
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... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Cyril Parks: Tattoo artist from the northern seaside town of Morecambe, England. Relocates to Coney Island in New York City.
- Eliot Riley: Tattoo artist and mentor of Cyril Parks.
- Grace: Add a description of this character.
- Claudia
- Reeda
- Henry Beausang
- Morris Gibbs
- Jonty
- Arturas
- Varga
- Eddie
- Morecambe
- Valerie
- Mrs Preston
- Den Jones
- Mrs Baxter
- Paddy Broadbent
- Malcolm Sedak
- Doris
- Lulu
- Terrance
- Michelangelo
- Greene
- Mary
- Pedder Street
- Colin Willacy
Quotes edit
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“-Ask any one of us, lad, the good ones, not these buggers who do it for show, and we'll all give the same answer. Why do we do it? Don't f*ing know.”
Eliot Riley
First Sentence edit
If the eyes could lie, his troubles might all be over.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Sarah Hall (Author)
Awards edit
- Man Booker Prize (Finalist, 2004, shortlist)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.6
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