| Author: |
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Katherine Dunn
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| Title: |
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Geek Love (Abacus Books) |
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No copies available |
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| Published in: |
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English |
| Binding: |
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Paperback |
| Pages: |
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256 |
| Date: |
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1990-11-01 |
| ASIN/ISBN: |
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0349100861 |
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Abacus |
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0.75 pounds |
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4.96 x 7.56 x 1.1 inches |
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New Ed |
| Previous givers: |
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2 samay54 (USA: VA), Aly (USA: TX) |
| Previous moochers: |
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2 Aly (USA: TX), Renae (USA: NM) |
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| Description: |
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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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