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Cyril Parks (Cy)

This character is the Electric Michelangelo of the novel's title who is a master tattoo artist on two continents.

Reeda Parks

This character is Cy's mother and the owner of the Bayview Hotel, a seaside resort catering to consumptives.

Eliot Riley

This character is the foul-mouthed, binge-drinking master tattoo artist in Morecambe to whom Cy apprentices.

Grace

Cy's downstairs neighbor, a bareback rider and tightrope walker on Coney Island, this character keeps her horse, Maximus, in her Brooklyn apartment.

Charles Henry (Henry) Beausang III

This character is a Georgia-born drunkard who becomes friends with Cy in Brooklyn.

Malcolm Sedak

This character is a Brooklyn chess player and religious fanatic who conceives the plan to restore Grace's tattooed body to God's original purity.

Mrs. Baxter

One of the consumptives visiting the Bayview Hotel, this character's face is bleached of color except for her vividly painted lips...

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