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Geek Love by Katherine Dunn (1990, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherGrand Central Publishing
ISBN-100446391301
ISBN-139780446391306
eBay Product ID (ePID)692649
Product Key Features
Book TitleGeek Love
Number of Pages355 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1990
TopicSagas, General, Literary
GenreFiction
AuthorKatherine Dunn
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight12.8 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN89-048439
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisGeek Love is the story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and paterfamilias set out-with the help of amphetamine, arsenic, and radioisotopes-to breed their own exhibit of human oddities. There's 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.
LC Classification NumberPS3554.U47G4 1990
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- Feb 27, 2017
An instant classic
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