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PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100394569024

ISBN-139780394569024

eBay Product ID (ePID)692856

Product Key Features

Book TitleGeek Love

Number of Pages347 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicSagas

Publication Year1989

GenreNon-Classifiable, Fiction

AuthorKatherine Dunn

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight26 Oz

Item Length9.4 in

Item Width6.7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN88-045776

Reviews"A Fellini movie in ink. . . . Geek Love throws a punch." -San Francisco Chronicle "Wonderfully descriptive. . . . Dunn [has a] tremendous imagination." -The New York Times Book Review "Like most great novels, this one keeps the reader marveling at the daring of the author." Philadelphia Inquirer "Unrelentingly bizarre . . . perverse but riveting. . . . Will keep you turning the pages." Chicago Tribune, "A Fellini movie in ink. . . .Geek Lovethrows a punch."-San Francisco Chronicle "Wonderfully descriptive. . . . Dunn [has a] tremendous imagination."-The New York Times Book Review "Like most great novels, this one keeps the reader marveling at the daring of the author."Philadelphia Inquirer "Unrelentingly bizarre . . . perverse but riveting. . . . Will keep you turning the pages."Chicago Tribune From the Trade Paperback edition.

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal813/.54

SynopsisGeek Love is the story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and paterfamilias set outwith the help of amphetamine, arsenic, and radioisotopesto 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 preciousand dangerousasset. 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 1989