![]() ![]() ![]() “All the time I was working on Geek Love, it was like my own private autism,” she said. The book’s author, Katherine Dunn (1945-2016), told Caitlin Roper at Willamette Week that she was surprised by the success of the book-which she’d spent nearly 10 years working on, far from the publishing world. ![]() When Geek Love was published in 1989, the novel received a lot of praise-and was a finalist for the National Book Award. 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.Īs 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. 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 amphetamines, arsenic, and radioisotopes. ![]() “This audacious, mesmerizing novel should carry a warning: ‘Reader Beware.’”- Publishers Weekly National Book Award Finalist ![]()
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