![]() Dunn grafted vaudeville vernacular onto a cool classicism, a prose style at once effortless and extravagant. In championing weirdness over “the horror of normalcy,” the novel became scripture to readers on the margins of the mainstream, attracting such high-profile admirers as Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love. It has sold more than 475,000 copies in the United States alone. The epic saga of the Binewskis, a family of circus freaks, and the tragic fate of their traveling sideshow, Geek Love was a finalist for the National Book Award and has since inspired cultish devotion (just Google “ Geek Love tattoos”). For Katherine Dunn, Geek Love (1989) is that novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() Like one jagged peak in a range of well-proportioned hills, the novel towers over the author’s other books and holds them in shadow. S ome novels grow so popular that they overwhelm a writer’s career. ![]()
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