A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O’Connor No book I’ve read, before or since, has given me that specific jolt’ Karen Russell, author of SwamplandiaĢ. I stood there in the bookstore and my jaw came unhinged. ‘I felt electrocuted when I read that first page with Crystal Lil and her freak brood. It made me ashamed to be so utterly normal’ Terry Gilliam
‘The most romantic novel about love and family I have read. ‘If Flannery O’Connor had consumed vast quantities of LSD, she might have written like this’ Literary Review 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.Īs 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, Geek Love throws its sulfurous light on our notions of the freakish and the normal, the beautiful and the ugly, the holy and the obscene. 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). 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.
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