Binewskis: Verfall einer radioaktiven Familie

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Author : Katherine Dunn
Genre : Fiction

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Summary : Die Binewskis haben einen Familienzirkus, dem sie Aufschwung verschaffen wollen, indem sie durch Mutationsexperimente ihre eigene Freakshow züchten. Kinder mit Flossen, siamesische Zwillinge, Albinos und zahlreiche andere bizarren Figuren wirken in dieser Geschichte erstaunlich normal.

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Author : Katherine Dunn
Genre : Fiction

Summary : A National Book Award Finalist: 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. (The New York Times Book Review) 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. 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, 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. Family values will never be the same. Praise for Geek Love 'If Flannery O'Connor had consumed vast quantities of LSD, she might have written like this' Literary Review 'The most romantic novel about love and family I have read. It made me ashamed to be so utterly normal' Terry Gilliam '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' Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia

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Author : Matthew Sullivan
Genre : Fiction

Summary : Der Tod kam in der Nacht, und nur die zehnjährige Lydia überlebte das Blutbad. Nun ist Lydia eine junge Frau, ihre Welt die kleine Buchhandlung, in der sie arbeitet. Als sich dort ein Stammkunde das Leben nimmt, erbt Lydia zu ihrer Überraschung dessen spärliche Hinterlassenschaften. Eine Überraschung, die dem Entsetzen weicht, als sie darunter nicht nur ein Kinderfoto von sich findet, sondern auch eine Reihe von Büchern, in deren zerschnittenen Seiten Hinweise versteckt sind. – Eine Spur tödlicher Verzweiflung, die Lydia an den dunkelsten Punkt ihrer eigenen Vergangenheit führt ...

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Author : Sam Esmail
Genre : Fiction

Summary : Wie oft haben sich wohl die Fans gefragt, was in Elliot Aldersons Kopf vorgeht und hätten nur zu gerne einmal einen Blick in sein mysteriöses Tagebuch geworfen – dieser Traum wird nun wahr. Serienerfinder Sam Esmail und Serienautorin Courtney Looney haben mit Red Wheelbarrow Elliots Tagebuch geschrieben – und bieten den Lesern einzigartige Einblicke in den Charakter der Hauptfigur der Serie sowie die eine oder andere Andeutung auf das zukünftige Geschehen. Zusätzlich findet man in dem Buch mehrere heraustrennbare Gimmicks wie zum Beispiel einen geheimnisvollen Umschlag oder einen Zeitungsausschnitt, um das Leseerlebnis noch spannender und atmosphärischer zu gestalten. Das absolute Must-Have für alle Fans der Serie! Mr. Robot erzählt die Geschichte des jungen Programmierers Elliot Alderson, der an einer Persönlichkeitsstörung leidet und nachts eine Parallelexistenz als Hacker führt. Als der geheimnisvolle Mr. Robot, Kopf einer illegalen Hackergruppe, ihn anheuert, um das Unternehmen zu zerstören, für das Elliot arbeitet, muss er sich entscheiden.

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Author : Katherine Dunn
Genre : Sports & Recreation

Summary : Published together for the first time, this anthology of essays on boxing covers the sport in all its forms and at its many levels. Written in bestselling author Katherine Dunn's characteristic vernacular, these pieces range from portraits of legendary fighters such as Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran, Marvin Hagler, and Mike Tyson to the unsung stories of trainers, amateurs, promoters, cutmen, and a pair of pugilistic priests. Spanning 30 years and including all who make up the vibrant boxing world, this compilation--from one of the most original voices in American sports literature--finely elevates the sport and communicates its beauty, passion, and character.

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Author : Thomas Pletzinger
Genre : Fiction

Summary : “The kind of writing that makes us want to read the whole book as soon as possible; a shot of adrenaline that immediately takes us to a new world.”—David Varno, Words Without Borders Journalist Daniel Mandelkern leaves Hamburg on assignment to interview Dirk Svensson, a reclusive children's book author who lives alone on the Italian side of Lake Lugano with his three-legged dog. Mandelkern has been quarreling with his wife (who is also his editor); he suspects she has other reasons for sending him away.After stumbling on a manuscript of Svensson's about a complicated ménage a trois, Mandelkern is plunged into mysteries past and present. Rich with anthropological and literary allusion, this prize-winning debut set in Europe, Brazil, and New York, tells the parallel stories of two writers struggling with the burden of the past and the uncertainties of the future. Funeral for a Dog won the prestigious Uwe-Johnson Prize, and critics raved: "Pletzinger's debut is a real smash hit. It's been a long time since a young German writer has thrown himself into the hurly-burly of life and literature with so much intelligence and bravado" (Wolfgang Hobel, Der Spiegel).