![]() ![]() Geek Love is dark, disturbing and (if you are of a gentle, sheltered disposition) distasteful tale that filled a freak-show shaped hole in my heart. The Jim Rose Circus as brilliant as it was did not count as that was pure showbiz hucksterism. She is a bald, hunchbacked, albino dwarf.įreak Shows have been out of fashion for a long time, there is a part of me that always wanted to go and see a traditional show (I still do). Their story – by turns shocking, tender, touching and cruel – is narrated by their sister, Olympia. The modern form and the popular use with reference to circus sideshow “wild men” is from 1946, in William Lindsay Gresham’s novel “Nightmare Alley” (made into a film in 1947 starring Tyrone Power).Īrturo the Aqua Boy is a limbless megalomaniac, Electra and Iphigenia are musically gifted Siamese twins with a penchant for prostitution and Fortunato is possessed if strange telekinetic powers. ![]() ![]() carnival and circus slang, perhaps a variant of geck “a fool, dupe, simpleton” (1510s), apparently from Dutch gek or Low German geck, from an imitative verb found in North Sea Germanic and Scandinavian meaning “to croak, cackle,” and also “to mock, cheat” (Dutch gekken, German gecken, Danish gjække, Swedish gäcka). On the plus side if they ignore reading the blurb on the back cover (that blurb is fantastic – do not skip it) it will not be long before their preconceptions are destroyed and they realise that they are caught up in: I am sure that when many people hear or see the title Geek Love their thoughts will immediately turn to: ![]()
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