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An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here. A wild, often horrifying, novel about freaks, geeks and other aberrancies of the human condition who travel together (a whole family of them) as a circus. It's a solipsistic funhouse world that makes "normal" people seem bland and pitiful. Arturo the Aqua-Boy, who has flippers and an enormous need to be loved. A museum of sacred monsters that didn't make it. An endearing "little beetle" of a heroine. Sort of like Tod Browning's Freaks crossed with David Lynch and John Irving and perhaps George Eliot -- the latter for the power of the emotions evoked.
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Geek Love, Katherine Dunn
- Language
- Released
- 1989
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- Title
- Geek Love
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Katherine Dunn
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Released
- 1989
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 348
- ISBN10
- 0394569024
- ISBN13
- 9780394569024
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Fantasy, Contemporary Fiction, Horror
- Rating
- 3.95 out of 5
- Description
- An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here. A wild, often horrifying, novel about freaks, geeks and other aberrancies of the human condition who travel together (a whole family of them) as a circus. It's a solipsistic funhouse world that makes "normal" people seem bland and pitiful. Arturo the Aqua-Boy, who has flippers and an enormous need to be loved. A museum of sacred monsters that didn't make it. An endearing "little beetle" of a heroine. Sort of like Tod Browning's Freaks crossed with David Lynch and John Irving and perhaps George Eliot -- the latter for the power of the emotions evoked.