Arty is a monsterpower hungry, evil, malicious, consumed by ``dark, bitter meanness and. Eventually their family consists of Arty, aka Arturo the Aqua Boy, born with flippers instead of limbs, who performs swimming inside a tank and soon learns how to manipulate his audience Electra and Iphigenia, Siamese twins and pianists the narrator, Oly and Fortunato, also called the Chick, who seems normal at birth, but whose telekinetic powers become apparent just as his brokenhearted parents are about to abandon him. ``What greater gift could you offer your children than an inherent ability to earn a living just by being themselves?'' muses Lily. Art and Lily, owners of Binewski's Fabulon, a traveling carnival, decide to breed their own freak show by creating genetically altered children through the use of experimental drugs. Dunn's vivid, energetic prose, her soaring imagination and assured narrative skill fuse to produce an unforgettable tale. A National Book Award nominee.Publishers WeeklyThis audacious, mesmerizing novel should carry a warning: ``Reader Beware.'' Those entering the world of carnival freaks described by narrator Olympia Binewski, a bald, humpbacked albino dwarf, will find no escape from a story at once engrossing and repellent, funny and terrifying, unreal and true to human nature. A carnival family saves its traveling "Carnival Fabulon" from bankruptcy by giving birth to freaks— in a "Ripley's Believe It or Not" world.
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