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Geek love

  • Katherine Dunn

4.29

7 ratings

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.

Genres

  • Fiction
  • Carnival owners
  • Monsters
  • Family
  • Families
  • Circus performers
  • Freak shows
  • Fiction, sagas
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  • Katherine Dunn

    4.29

    7 ratings · 20 works

Editions

  • Edition cover

    Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing

    Apr 29, 1999

  • Edition cover

    Knopf, Distributed by Random House

    1989

  • Edition cover

    Warner Books

    1990

  • Edition cover

    1st Vintage contemporaries ed.

    Vintage Books

    2002

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Warner Books

August 1993

  • Edition cover

    Random House Trade

    January 1990

  • Edition cover

    Hamilton

    1989

  • Edition cover

    Unabridged edition

    Recorded Books

    1999

  • Edition cover

    Warner Books

    1990