Geek Love
Katherine Dunn
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 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.Binding Type: PaperbackAuthor: Katherine DunnPublisher: VintagePublished: 06/11/2002ISBN: 9780375713347Pages: 368Weight: 0.59lbsSize: 8.02h x 5.18w x 0.81dReview Citations: Newsweek 07/27/2009 pg. 57Time 07/13/2009 pg. 55People Weekly 08/27/2012 pg. 61Entertainment Weekly 09/04/2015 pg. 45
Book Title
Geek Love
ISBN
9780375713347
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 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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Katherine Dunn
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 06/11/2002
ISBN: 9780375713347
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.18w x 0.81d
Review Citations: Newsweek 07/27/2009 pg. 57
Time 07/13/2009 pg. 55
People Weekly 08/27/2012 pg. 61
Entertainment Weekly 09/04/2015 pg. 45
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Katherine Dunn
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 06/11/2002
ISBN: 9780375713347
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.18w x 0.81d
Review Citations: Newsweek 07/27/2009 pg. 57
Time 07/13/2009 pg. 55
People Weekly 08/27/2012 pg. 61
Entertainment Weekly 09/04/2015 pg. 45
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 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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Katherine Dunn
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 06/11/2002
ISBN: 9780375713347
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.18w x 0.81d
Review Citations: Newsweek 07/27/2009 pg. 57
Time 07/13/2009 pg. 55
People Weekly 08/27/2012 pg. 61
Entertainment Weekly 09/04/2015 pg. 45
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Katherine Dunn
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 06/11/2002
ISBN: 9780375713347
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.18w x 0.81d
Review Citations: Newsweek 07/27/2009 pg. 57
Time 07/13/2009 pg. 55
People Weekly 08/27/2012 pg. 61
Entertainment Weekly 09/04/2015 pg. 45