“The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort”
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<p><b>A National Book Award Finalist:</b> This 'wonderfully descriptive' novel from an author with a 'tremendous imagination' tells the unforgettable story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and paterfamilias have bred their own exhibit of human oddities. (<i>The New York Times Book Review</i>)<br> <br> The Binewskis arex a circus-geek family whose matriarch and patriarch have bred their own exhibit of human oddities (with the help of amphetamine, arsenic, and radioisotopes). Their offspring include Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy of Genghis Khan, Iphy and Elly, the lissome Siamese twins, albino hunchback Oly, and the outwardly normal Chick, whose mysterious gifts make him the family's most precious - and dangerous - asset.</p> <p>As the Binewskis take their act across the backwaters of the US, inspiring fanatical devotion and murderous revulsion; as its members conduct their own Machiavellian version of sibling rivalry, <i>Geek Love</i> throws its sulfurous light on our notions of the freakish and the normal, the beautiful and the ugly, the holy and the obscene.</p> <p>Family values will never be the same.</p> <p><b>Praise for <i>Geek Love</i></b></p> <p>'If Flannery O'Connor had consumed vast quantities of LSD, she might have written like this' <b><i>Literary Review</i></b></p> <p>'The most romantic novel about love and family I have read. It made me ashamed to be so utterly normal' <b>Terry Gilliam</b></p> <p>'I felt electrocuted when I read that first page with Crystal Lil and her freak brood. I stood there in the bookstore and my jaw came unhinged. No book I've read, before or since, has given me that specific jolt' <b>Karen Russell, author of <i>Swamplandia</i></b></p>
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“The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort”
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“It is, I suppose, the common grief of children at having to protect their parents from reality. It is bitter for the young to see what awful innocence adults grow into, that terrible vulnera...”
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“Can you be happy with the movies, and the ads, and the clothes in the stores, and the doctors, and the eyes as you walk down the street all telling you there is something wrong with you? No....”
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