Katherine Dunn (1) (1945–2016)
Autor(a) de Geek Love
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About the Author
Katherine Dunn was born in Garden City, Kansas on October 24, 1945. She was educated at Portland State University and Reed College. Her first novel, Attic, was published in 1970. Her other novels included Truck and Geek Love, which was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1989. She also worked mostrar mais as a boxing reporter, a columnist, and a poet. Her non-fiction book, School of Hard Knocks: The Struggle for Survival in America's Toughest Boxing Gyms, received the Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Award in 2004. She died from complications of lung cancer on May 11, 2016 at the age of 70. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Obras por Katherine Dunn
Associated Works
Step Right Up: Stories of Carnivals, Sideshows, and the Circus (2004) — Contribuidor — 51 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Dunn, Katherine Karen
- Data de nascimento
- 1945-10-24
- Data de falecimento
- 2016-05-11
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Garden City, Kansas, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Portland, Oregon, USA
- Causa da morte
- lung cancer
- Locais de residência
- Tigard, Oregon, USA
Portland, Oregon, USA - Educação
- Reed College
- Ocupações
- bartender
house painter
restaurant server
writing teacher
voice actor
editor (mostrar todos 9)
radio show host
journalist
book reviewer - Organizações
- Lewis & Clark College
cyberboxingzone.com - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Award (2004)
Membros
Críticas
DNF. I’m not doing that to myself.
I asked my Facebook friends for book recommendations and added every one of them to my Want to Read list. This was recommended by someone I hardly know, who I now realize has far different tastes in books than I. (I have now removed this person’s other suggestions from my list. No hard feelings. Just very much not for me.)
Let’s just say I was expecting this to be a cutesy romance novel about nerds. I forgot about the antiquated origins of the word “geek.”… (mais)
I asked my Facebook friends for book recommendations and added every one of them to my Want to Read list. This was recommended by someone I hardly know, who I now realize has far different tastes in books than I. (I have now removed this person’s other suggestions from my list. No hard feelings. Just very much not for me.)
Let’s just say I was expecting this to be a cutesy romance novel about nerds. I forgot about the antiquated origins of the word “geek.”… (mais)
Impressionant llibre d'escenes d'assessinats. Fotos fetes per la mateixa policia i que generalment no es poden veure.
A very strange book indeed! The subject matter isn't for everyone, and some will find it repelling. I did become very attached to the characters. And the story went well beyond the main subject, exploring cultural oddities, fascination with the grotesque, what is normal, family dynamics, unconditional love, group behavior, charismatic leaders, and on and on.
Listas
Female Author (1)
Unread books (1)
Read This Next (1)
Best First Lines (1)
Books with Twins (1)
2017 Goal (1)
Prémios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 15
- Also by
- 9
- Membros
- 6,815
- Popularidade
- #3,586
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 171
- ISBN
- 67
- Línguas
- 8
- Marcado como favorito
- 23
It's a strange but interesting read for the most part, though at times, horrifying. The first third grabbed me, but later in the book my attention waned at times and I found the ending a little unsatisfactory. I'm not sure I like it very much.… (mais)