Geek Love
$37.80
- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
2 April 1991
Summary
A National Book Award Finalist: This ‘wonderfully descriptive’ novel from an author with a ‘tremendous imagination’ tells the unforgettable story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and paterfamilias have bred their own exhibit of human oddities.
The Binewskis are 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 Aquab…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349100869 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349100861 |
| Author: | Katherine Dunn |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Release Date: | 2 April 1991 |
| Weight: | 385g |
| Dimensions: | 133mm x 200mm x 34mm |
| Series: | Abacus Books |
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Critics Review
Riveting and extremely well-crafted. There’s a real philosophy behind it where it actually touches on the profound.
If Flannery O’Connor had consumed vast quantities of LSD, she might have written like this. - LITERARY REVIEW
Riveting and extremely well-crafted. There’s a real philosophy behind it where it actually touches on the profound. - MARGARET FORSTERThe most romantic novel about love and family I have read. It made me ashamed to be so utterly normalI felt electrocuted when I read that first page with Crystal Lil and her freak brood. I stood there in the bookstore and my jaw came unhinged. No book I’ve read, before or since, has given me that specific joltAbout The Author
Katherine Dunn
Katherine Dunn was a journalist, an advice columnist, and a boxing correspondent for the Associated Press. She died in 2016.
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