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National Book Award Finalist – 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. One of The Atlantic‘s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years 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 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.
Author: Katherine Dunn
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 6/11/2002
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.59 lbs
Size: 8.02″ H x 5.18″ L x 0.81″ W
ISBN: 9780375713347
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