Less a typical nuclear family than a nuked one, the Binewskis despise ‘norms’-to the extent of killing or abandoning those of their infants born without a speciality. It is a world devoid of elegant amenity: sherry is drunk from plastic foam cups, Champagne from plastic tumblers, bourbon or ''cheap Merlot'' from coffee mugs - not a proper glass in sight.
“The target of Dunn’s grotesquerie is our hypocritical culture, which claims to celebrate individualism but vigorously promotes conformity and conventional beauty. Geek Love Selected: Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780349100869 A National Book Award Finalist: This wonderfully descriptive novel from an author with a tremendous. A National Book Award Finalist: This wonderfully descriptive novel from an author with a tremendous imagination tells the. This raw, shocking view of the human condition, a glimpse of the tormented people who live on the fringe, makes readers confront the dark, mad elements in every society. Geek Love asks the question ‘what greater gift could you offer your children than an inherent ability to earn a living just by being themselves?’ Thus, Al Binewski and his wife, Crystal Lil, ‘experimenting with illicit prescription drugs, insecticides, and eventually radarscopes,’ give birth to a series of crowd-pleasingly deformed children.
There’s Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy of Genghis Khan. “HUR-REE! HUR-REE! Step right up, lady and gentlemen readers! Welcome to Aloysius Binewski’s Fabulous traveling carnival and freak show! See Arturo Binewski, the amazing legless, armless Aqua Boy! See Electra and Iphigenia, the beautiful piano-playing Siamese twins! Meet Olympia Binewski, the bald albino hunchbacked dwarf! Read Katherine Dunn’s provocative, inventive, funny, gristly and hugely compelling third novel! HUR-REE! HUR-REE!… Geek 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.
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