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100 1 _aDunn, Katherine,
_d1945-2016,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aGeek love
_c/ Katherine Dunn.
264 1 _aLondon :
_bAbacus,
_c2014.
300 _a xi, 499 pages ; 20 cm.
500 _aPreviously issued in print: London: Hamish Hamilton, 1989.
520 _aGeek 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. 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. 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. As the Binewskis take their act across the backwaters of the US, 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.
540 _aRestricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.
_5Uk
650 0 _aCarnival owners
_vFiction.
650 0 _aCircus performers
_vFiction.
650 0 _aFreak shows
_vFiction.
655 0 _aBLACK HUMOR
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