In this cult, Arty persuades people to have their limbs amputated (so that they can be like him) in their search for the principle he calls PIP ("Peace, Isolation, Purity"). They especially have to deal with the Machiavellian Arty as he develops his own cult: Arturism. The novel takes place in two interwoven time periods: the first deals with the Binewski children's constant struggle against each other through life. The results are Arturo ("Arty," also known as "Aqua Boy"), a boy with flippers for hands and feet Electra ("Elly") and Iphigenia ("Iphy"), Siamese twins Olympia ("Oly"), a hunchbacked albino dwarf and Fortunato ("Chick"), the normal-looking baby of the family who has telekinetic powers. When the business begins to fail, the couple devise an idea to breed their own freak show, using various drugs and radioactive material to alter the genes of their children. The novel is the story of a traveling carnival run by Aloysius "Al" Binewski and his wife "Crystal" Lil, and their children, seen through the eyes of their daughter Olympia ("Oly") who writes the family history for her daughter Miranda. It was a finalist for the National Book Award. Dunn published parts of the novel in Mississippi Mud Book of Days (1983) and Looking Glass Bookstore Review (1988). Knopf (a division of Random House) in 1989. Geek Love is a novel by American writer Katherine Dunn, published completely by Alfred A.
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