Electric Michelangelo (e-bog) af Hall, Sarah
Hall, Sarah

Electric Michelangelo e-bog

84,89 DKK
Wickedly imagined and richly written. . . . Prose as highly colored as Halls has to to be savored.The IndependentSHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZECy Parks is theElectric 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 h…
Wickedly imagined and richly written. . . . Prose as highly colored as Halls has to to be savored.The IndependentSHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZECy Parks is theElectric 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.
E-bog 84,89 DKK
Forfattere Hall, Sarah (forfatter)
Udgivet 04.07.2017
Længde 368 sider
Genrer Fiction: general and literary
Sprog English
Format epub
Beskyttelse LCP
ISBN 9780062803320

Wickedly imagined and richly written. . . . Prose as highly colored as Halls has to to be savored.The IndependentSHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZECy Parks is theElectric 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.