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Geek Love
Author
Katherine Dunn
Cover artist
David Hughes
Country
United States
Language
English
Genre
Novel
Publisher
Catherine Marshal
Publication date
1989
Media type
Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages
368
ISBN
0-394-56902-4
OCLC
18464835
Dewey Decimal
813/.54 19
LC Class
PS3554.U47 G4 1989
Geek Love is a novel by American writer Katherine Dunn, published completely by Alfred A. Knopf (a division of Random House) in 1989. Dunn published parts of the novel in Mississippi Mud Book of Days (1983) and Looking Glass Bookstore Review (1988). It was a finalist for the National Book Award.[1]
The novel is the story of a traveling carnival run by Aloysius "Al" Binewski and his wife "Crystal" Lil, and their children, seen through the eyes of their daughter Olympia ("Oly") who writes the family history for her daughter Miranda. When the business begins to fail, the couple devise an idea to breed their own freak show, using various drugs and radioactive material to alter the genes of their children. The results are Arturo ("Arty," also known as "Aqua Boy"),[1] a boy with flippers for hands and feet; Electra ("Elly") and Iphigenia ("Iphy"), Siamese twins; Olympia ("Oly"), a hunchbacked albino dwarf; and Fortunato ("Chick"), the normal-looking baby of the family who has telekinetic powers.
^ abAbernethy, Michael. "Family Circus: Katherine Dunn's Geek Love," Pop Matters (1 February 2006).
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TV show Entourage. In 2004, Dallas starred in Fan_3's music video for GeekLove. In 2005, Dallas starred with Mischa Barton in James Blunt's music video...
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controversial Tod Browning film Freaks. "GeekLove" on CD regularly sells for £25-£35 on www.ebay.co.uk. In 2007 "GeekLove" was voted number 16 on the cult radio...
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September 2021. Retrieved 8 September 2021. Weisbard, Eric (December 2000). "GeekLove". SPIN. pp. 158–162. Cantrell, Paul Alexander (2014). "'A Very Subtle...
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