5/27/2023 0 Comments Katherine dunn new book![]() ![]() It’s a psychedelic trip that subverts the carnivalesque and is darkly hilarious. You can loathe circuses and yet love circus fiction however, Geek Love is more freak show than circus. It has endured twenty-five years of cult popularity but deserves a wider audience, a peanut-crunching crowd who roll up, roll up, to see the show. I have reread it more than I reread most novels and welcomed the recent reissue by Abacus for its twenty-fifth anniversary and the subsequent invitation from Simon to review it for Shiny New Books (he knows me and my taste in fiction well). I first heard about it at university, from a lecturer who you sat up and listened to when he recommended something, as, more often than not, it was something you had never heard of before but would never forget upon reading. ![]() ![]() Hyperbole or not, it is one of those cult classics that those who are in the know, are smug to be so, and see it in the work of Pulitzer-prize-nominee Karen Russell, of any fiction set in or around a circus, or in the latest season of American Horror Story: Freak Show. Geek Love by Katherine Dunn is like nothing you have ever read before. ![]()
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