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Katherine Dunn


USA flag (1945 - 2016)

Katherine Dunn was best known for her beloved novel "Geek Love," which was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1989. She was also the author of the novels "Attic" (1970) and "Truck" (1971). A fourth novel, entitled "The Cut Man," was in-progress for decades and was purportedly scheduled for a September 2008 release.

Dunn was also known as a prolific sports journalist in the field of boxing, and wrote several articles on the subject.
 


Genres: Literary Fiction
 
Novels
   Attic (1970)
   Truck (1971)
   3 Day Fox (1979)
   Geek Love (1989)
   Toad (2022)
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Books containing stories by Katherine Dunn
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Snapshots (2000)
20th Century Mother-Daughter Fiction
edited by
Janet Berliner and Joyce Carol Oates

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Award nominations
1989 National Book Award for Fiction (shortlist) : Geek Love
1989 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel (nominee) : Geek Love


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Join (2016)
Steve Toutonghi
"A searing, ballistic plunge into the mysteries of identity and mortality."
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Available Dark (2012)
(Cass Neary, book 2)
Elizabeth Hand
"Photographer and aging NYC punk rocker, Cass Neary is one of literature's great noir anti-heroes. Ferocious, aching with compassion and cruelly brilliant, Available Dark is a sinful pleasure."
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The Astounding, the Amazing, and the Unknown (2011)
Paul Malmont
"Affectionate and entertaining...An adventure that swoops from romp to chills, from humor to dread. Malmont's big, lush novel is sly and charming, nostalgic and intiguing fun."

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