Geek Love: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries)
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| Rating | : | 4.55 (791 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B004QWZNAK |
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| Number of Pages | : | 561 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-27 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Decidedly not for the squeamish, boxing journalist Katherine Dunn's National Book Award finalist depicts the Binewskis, a brood of grotesques whose parents aspire to be traveling-circus proprietors and so willfully poison their children in utero in hopes of birthing for-profit freaks. --Jason Kirk. With this pitiable cast of outcasts, Dunn accomplishes an adroit narrative ploy: her characters' gruesome disfigurements mask a humanity that's almost more recognizable for its shocking context. Several survive, albeit with horrifying deformities: Arturo, the sa
Geek 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. Family values will never be the same.From the Trade Paperback edition.. 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. 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
AJ. said Heartbreaking, complex, and dark. Oh, this book. I started it the day that I found out the author had died -- I'd kept meaning to get to it, and that seemed as good a time as any.I don't know what I expected, but it wasn't this. Geek Love is about a family of "circus freaks" -- the Binewski clan, where each child was borne of love and a new cocktail of drugs: an albino hunchback. Defective book WONDERFUL STORY! Unfortunately the book I ordered came missing pages 113-1Defective book WONDERFUL STORY! Amazon Customer Unfortunately the book I ordered came missing pages 113-145! I'm dying to know what happens next! Randomly there are pages from the book 'Strong Mothers, Strong Sons' placed in the middle of this book! BLARGH!The story has been brilliantly dark so far and I cannot wait to continue it once the book is replaced!. 5! I'm dying to know what happens next! Randomly there are pages from the book 'Strong Mothers, Strong Sons' placed in the middle of this book! BLARGH!The story has been brilliantly dark so far and I cannot wait to continue it once the book is replaced!. "Misprint" according to Amazon Customer. DISCLAIMER: This is not a review of Katherine Dunn's wonderful novel, but the printing of it.About halfway through the book pages 109 - 1Misprint Amazon Customer DISCLAIMER: This is not a review of Katherine Dunn's wonderful novel, but the printing of it.About halfway through the book pages 109 - 144 are missing and in their place are pages from a book titled "Strong Mothers Strong Sons". Apparently I am not the only person who has a copy of this misprint, so be careful when purchasing this edition.. Misprint Amazon Customer DISCLAIMER: This is not a review of Katherine Dunn's wonderful novel, but the printing of it.About halfway through the book pages 109 - 144 are missing and in their place are pages from a book titled "Strong Mothers Strong Sons". Apparently I am not the only person who has a copy of this misprint, so be careful when purchasing this edition.. are missing and in their place are pages from a book titled "Strong Mothers Strong Sons". Apparently I am not the only person who has a copy of this misprint, so be careful when purchasing this edition.