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Geek love / Katherine Dunn.

by Dunn, Katherine, 1945-2016.

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New York : Vintage Books, 2002.

Carnival owners -- Fiction.

Circus performers -- Fiction.

Freak shows -- Fiction.

9780375713347 (pbk.) :

347 pages ; 21 cm

First Vintage contemporaries edition.

Bk. I. Midnight gardener -- The nuclear family : his talk, her teeth -- Notes for now : the joy of the worm -- Notes for now : meltdown, driving into teacups from the thirteenth floor, and other stimulating experiences -- bk. II. Your dragon -- care, feeding, and identifying fewmets -- Papa's roses -- Assassin -- limp-wristed and shy -- The lucky one -- Green -- as in arsenic, tarnished spoons, and gas-chamber doors -- Educating the chick -- How we fed the cats -- Snake dance -- immaculate -- Blood, stumps, and other changes -- bk. III. Spiral mirror -- Notes for now : Miss Lick's home flicks -- Flesh -- electric on wheels -- The pen pal -- Press -- The fly roper and the transcendental maggot -- Popcorn pimp -- Enter the bag man -- Witness -- The fix unfixed -- On the lam -- Nose spites face, lip disappears -- The generalissimo's big gun -- Catching his shrieks in cups of gold -- All fall down -- bk. IV. Becoming the dragon -- Notes for now : the swimmers -- Notes for now : getting to know you and your .357 magnum -- Notes for now : one for the road.

Aloysious and Lillian Binewski, proprietors of a traveling carnival, attempt to reduce overhead by breeding their own freak show, with tragic results.

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