Geek Loveis the story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and paterfamilias set out-with the help of amphetamine, arsenic, and radioisotopes-to breed their own exhibit of human oddities. There's 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 U.S., inspiring fanatical devotion and murderous revulsion; as its members conduct their own Machiavellian version of sibling rivalry,Geek Lovethrows 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. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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"You can't mix tigers and husbands. And, anyhow, I prefer the tigers." -- Mabel Stark Mabel Stark was one of the most famous women of her time, the centre-ring finale act of the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey circus in the 1920s and 1930s when circus was the most popular form of entertainment in North America. Barely five feet tall, blonde, lithe, dressed in her trademark skintight white leather jumpsuit, Stark made her mark in a man's world. She was brazen, courageous to the point of self-destruction, obsessed with tigers, addicted to drugs, and sexually eccentric. Her relationship with the big cats moulded her career, her marriages, her concept of joy. Rob Hough has created a compelling fictional autobiography of Mabel Stark, leaping from the documents of her life into the mysteries of her heart, and into the carnival world of the travelling circus. As the novel opens, the year is 1968. Mabel Stark is turning eighty years old and is about to lose her job at JungleWorld, a circus-cum-zoo in northern California -- the new owners don't appreciate her legendary status. Haunted by memories, she looks back on her life, her escapades and tragedies, her love affairs with tigers and with men. She's spent almost thirty years basically hiding out as a result "of doing the worst thing one person can do to another" and she decides that she has only one task left before her time comes. Mabel Stark wants to make her final confession. Facts about Mabel Stark: -- Mabel Stark was the first person to wrestle an adult tiger for a paying audience -- the first to teach a black panther to ride the back of a tiger -- the first to train Sumatran tigers -- Stark did not neuter, beat or bully her cats, and her methods are used even today -- She survived more than a dozen maulings -- Her life story was optioned by Paramount
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The House at Riverton is a gorgeous debut novel set in England between the wars. It is the story of an aristocratic family, a house, a mysterious death and a way of life that vanished forever, told in flashback by a woman who witnessed it all and kept a secret for decades. Grace Bradley went to work at Riverton House as a servant when she was just a girl, before the First World War. For years her life was inextricably tied up with the Hartford family, most particularly the two daughters, Hannah and Emmeline. In the summer of 1924, at a glittering society party held at the house, a young poet shot himself. The only witnesses were Hannah and Emmeline and only they -- and Grace -- know the truth. In 1999, when Grace is ninety-eight years old and living out her last days in a nursing home, she is visited by a young director who is making a film about the events of that summer. She takes Grace back to Riverton House and reawakens her memories. Told in flashback, this is the story of Grace's youth during the last days of Edwardian aristocratic privilege shattered by war, of the vibrant twenties and the changes she witnessed as an entire way of life vanished forever. The novel is full of secrets -- some revealed, others hidden forever, reminiscent of the romantic suspense of Daphne du Maurier. It is also a meditation on memory, the devastation of war and a beautifully rendered window into a fascinating time in history. Originally published to critical acclaim in Australia, already sold in ten countries and a #1 bestseller in England, The House at Riverton is a vivid, page-turning novel of suspense and passion, with characters -- and an ending -- the reader won't soon forget.
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From the award-winning author of One Thousand White Women, a novel in the tradition of Little Big Man, tracing one man's search for adventure and the wild Apache girl who invites him into her world hen Ned Giles is orphaned as a teenager, he heads West hoping to leave his troubles behind. He joins the 1932 Great Apache Expedition on their search for a young boy, the son of a wealthy Mexican landowner, who was kidnapped by wild Apaches. But the expedition's goal is complicated when they encounter a wild Apache girl in a Mexican jail cell, victim of a Mexican massacre of her tribe that has left her orphaned and unwilling to eat or speak. As he and the expedition make their way through the rugged Sierra Madre mountains, Ned's growing feelings for the troubled girl soon force him to choose allegiances and make a decision that will haunt him forever.
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