Geek Love - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Katherine DunnSeries:Vintage ContemporariesPublish date:2002-06-11Pages:368
Languages:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780375713347ISBN-10:375713344UPC:9780375713347Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Disabilities, Family Life, LiterarySize:8.02 x 5.18 x 0.81 inchesWeight:0.59Product ID:SC0BNMVA8H
National Book Award Finalist - Here is the unforgettable story of the Binewskis, a circus-geek family whose matriarch and patriarch have bred their own exhibit of human oddities--with the help of amphetamines, arsenic, and radioisotopes. One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Their offspring include Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy of Genghis Khan . . . Iphy and Elly, the lissome Siamese twins . . . albino hunchback Oly, and the outwardly normal Chick, whose mysterious gifts make him the family's most precious--and dangerous--asset. As the Binewskis take their act across the backwaters of the U.S., inspiring fanatical devotion and murderous revulsion; as its members conduct their own Machiavellian version of sibling rivalry, Geek Love throws its sulfurous light on our notions of the freakish and the normal, the beautiful and the ugly, the holy and the obscene. Family values will never be the same.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780375713347ISBN-10:375713344UPC:9780375713347Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Disabilities, Family Life, LiterarySize:8.02 x 5.18 x 0.81 inchesWeight:0.59Product ID:SC0BNMVA8H
Katherine Dunn was a novelist and boxing journalist who lived and worked in Oregon. She is the author of three novels: Attic; Truck; and Geek Love, which was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Bram Stoker Prize. She died in 2016.
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