num_pages: 348
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.
language: English
title: Geek Love
titlecomplete: Geek Love
characters: Al Binewski, Olympia "Oly" Binewski, Arturo "Arty" Binewski
genres: Fiction, Dark, Horror, Literature, Adult, Novels, Contemporary, Adult Fiction, Fantasy, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 65756
places: Oregon
awards: awardedAt: 599644800000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: Alfred A. Knopf