description: Alternate Cover Edition for ISBN10: 0394569024; ISBN13: 9780394569024A 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: Olympia "Oly" Binewski, Al Binewski, Arturo "Arty" Binewski
genres: Dark, Fantasy, Adult, Adult Fiction, Novels, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Horror
ratings_count: 65753
places: Oregon
awards: awardedAt: 599644800000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: Alfred A. Knopf