Geek Love by Katherine Dunn Paperback Book
31 Rating(s)

Details

Rent Geek Love

Author: Katherine Dunn

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Random House Inc

Published: Jun 2002

Genre: Fiction - Literary

Retail Price: $18.00

Pages: 347

Synopsis

The narrator, Olympia Binewski, an albino hunchback dwarf, tells the story of her large, close, and highly unusual family: her parents who deliberately gave birth to freaks to populate their carnival freak show (Olympia is the produce of experiments with cocaine, amphetamines, and arsenic); her Siamese-twin sisters; her brother, Arturo (

View descriptions at Amazon.com

Recommended

Extremely Loud and...
by Jonathan Safran Foer

A new novel by the author of Everything Is Illuminated introduces Oskar Schell, the nine-year-old son of a man killed in the World Trade Center...

Light on Snow
by Anita Shreve

A brilliant and beautiful contemporary novel about love and memory from the author of the bestselling novels All He Ever Wanted and The Pilots...

Water for Elephants
by Sara Gruen

Jacob Jankowski, 90 years old and living in a nursing home, tells how, orphaned and penniless during the Great Depression, he became an animal trainer...

Reviews

BookLender review by Kamisha on 2011-09-23 16:18:13

Once in a while I read a book that when I finish it I just dont know what to say. Thats not neccessarily a bad thing usually its actually a good thing and I think thats the case for this book. Geek Love was so disturbing and amazing that I just dont even really know what to say about it. Centered around the Binewski family who own a travelling carnival, Geek Love is about their lives told from the point of view of the youngest daughter Olympia, the albino dwarf. There are 4 or 5 depending on how you look at it kids in the Binewski family Arturo or Aqua Man, Elly and Iphy the siamese twins, Olympia the dwarf, and Chick/Fortunato the most normal of the Binewski kids. Olympia tells the story of the Binewskis with an honest though navie point of view at times. The parts of the book that are about Olys adult life in the normal world where she is much less innocent are especially heartbreaking. The book is very intriguing if sometimes disturbing but it is also very sad and touching. Its not neccessarily a book for everyone and it doesnt really fit into any specific genre but if you enjoy reading books that make you really think and feel different emotions, it definitely meets those requirements.