Geek love
by Katherine Dunn
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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 amphetamine, arsenic, and radioisotopes). 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.
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Fiction, Carnival owners, Monsters, Family, Families, Circus performers, Freak shows, Fiction, sagas| Edition | Availability |
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Geek Love: A Novel
Apr 29, 1999, Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing
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1664401903 9781664401907
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Geek Love
1999, Recorded Books
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in English
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0788731076 9780788731075
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