Geek Love

Auteur: Katherine Dunn
Taal: Engels
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Geek Love
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Auteur: Katherine Dunn
Uitgever: Little Brown UK
  • Engels
  • Paperback
  • 9780349100869
  • Druk: New edition
  • november 1990
  • 512 pagina's
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A National Book Award Finalist: This 'wonderfully descriptive' novel from an author with a 'tremendous imagination' tells the unforgettable story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and paterfamilias have bred their own exhibit of human oddities. (The New York Times Book Review) The Binewskis arex 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 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. Praise for Geek Love 'If Flannery O'Connor had consumed vast quantities of LSD, she might have written like this' Literary Review 'The most romantic novel about love and family I have read. It made me ashamed to be so utterly normal' Terry Gilliam 'I felt electrocuted when I read that first page with Crystal Lil and her freak brood. I stood there in the bookstore and my jaw came unhinged. No book I've read, before or since, has given me that specific jolt' Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia
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Taal
Engels
Bindwijze
Paperback
Druk
New edition
Verschijningsdatum
november 1990
Afmetingen
20,3 x 13,3 x 2,5 cm
Aantal pagina's
512 pagina's
Illustraties
Nee

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Auteur
Katherine Dunn
Uitgever
Little Brown UK

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9780349100869

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Gewicht
1 g
Verpakking breedte
126 mm
Verpakking hoogte
37 mm
Verpakking lengte
200 mm

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  • Circus freaks to fall in love with
    • SWelsh
    • Rotterdam
    • 4 juni 2010
    • Fantasierijk
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    At first glance, any description of this book might seem completely ridiculous and outlandish, but that would be selling this book short. Geek Love is hilarious and heartwarming and after a few pages the strangeness of the situations and characters will no longer seem odd but normal. As the reader you become totally immersed in the world of traveling circus side-shows to the point where you feel right at home. Ultimately this is a story of a 'geek' that is at the bottom of her competitive and dominant family's food chain and is trying to create her own happiness.

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