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Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2004 On the windswept leading of Morecambe Bay, Cy Parks spends his youth years first in a guesthouse for consumptives run by his mom and then as apprentice to alcoholic tattoo artist Eliot Riley. Thirsty for new activities, 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 such a carnival environment of roller-coasters and freak-shows, Cy becomes enamoured with Sophistication, a incomprehensible immigrant and circus performer who commissions him to pay her entire body in tattooed eyes. Hugely atmospheric, unique, and familiar, The Electric Michelangelo is a love story and an exquisitely rendered portrait of seaside resorts on opposing factors of the Atlantic by one of the very most exclusively talented novelists of her generation. Sarah Hall was born in Cumbria and currently lives in Norwich, Norfolk. She actually is the author of four books: Haweswater, The Electric Michelangelo, The Carhullan Army, and How to Color a Deceased Man; a collection of short stories, The Beautiful Indifference; original radio dramas; and poetry. She has won several honours, including the Commonwealth Authors' Prize for Best First Novel, the Betty Trask Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Wayne Tiptree, Jr. Award, the Advantage Hill University Short Story Prize, and has double been receiver of the Portico Prize. She has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Prix Femina Etranger, the Arthur C. Clarke Award for research fiction, the BBC National Short Story Award and the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. This season she was known as one of Granta's Best Young United kingdom Novelists.
