Lil Binewski, born a Boston aristocrat, was in her time the
most stylish of geeks. That is to say she made her living by biting
the heads off live chickens in front of a Carnival audience. This
she gave up for doting motherhood, because she had her fairground-
owning husband had a money spinning idea. Throughout each pregnancy
Lil gobbles pesticides, experiments with drugs and douses herself
with radiation to ensure that she prodcues infants grotesque enough
to keep the turnstiles clicking. She does. Arturo the Aqua Boy is a
limbless megalomaniac, Electra and Iphigenia are musically gifted
Siamese twins with a penchant for prostitution and Fortunato is
possessed of stange telekinetic powers. Their story- by turns
shocking, tender, touching and cruel- is narrated by their sister
Olympia. She is a bald, hunchbacked, albino dwarf.
關於作者:
Katherine Dunn is a journalist, an advice columnist, and
boxing correspondant for the Associated Press.
目錄:
BOOK ! Midnight Gardener
1.The Nuclear Family: His Talk, Her Teeth
2.NOTES FOR NOW: The Joy of the Worm
3.NOTES FOR NOW: Meltdown, Diving into Teacups from the
Thirteenth Floor, and Other Stimulating Experiences
soot n Your Dragon -- Care, Feeding, and Identifying
Fewmets
4.Papa''s Roses
5.Assassin -- Limp-Wristed and Shy
6.The Lucky One
7.Green -- as in Arsenic, Tarnished Spoons, and
Gas-Chamber Doors
8.Educating the Chick
9.How We Fed the Cats
10.Snake Dance -- Immaculate
11.Blood, Stumps, and Other Changes
BooK m Spiral Mirror
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