ATTIC. [Paperback]

Katherine Dunn (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Harper & Row; First Edition edition (1970)
• ASIN: B00269I334
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)

More About the Author

Katherine Dunn is an award-winning boxing journalist whose work has appeared in many publications, including Esquire, KO Magazine, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Playboy, The Ring, Sports Illustrated, and Vogue. She is the author of three novels, including Geek Love, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. In 2004, Dunn and photographer Jim Lommasson won the Lange-Taylor Documentary Prize for their work on the book Shadow Boxers. She is currently associate editor of cyberboxingzone.com, an internet boxing encyclopedia and magazine. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

Customer Reviews

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars crazy truth crazy amazing stream of consciousness, August 3, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Attic (Paperback)

Very necessary for any Geek Lover. It's like an autobiography, with the most awesome strange plot lines twisted right in. Highly sexual, disturbing, intense. And it's all stream of consciousness, and it is so good. I personally like it a whole lot more than I like Truck, and it clearly belongs to a different genre than Geek. It's intense. In honor of my great aunt Eva, I give it three enthusiastic thumbs up.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Pointless, Disjointed, But With Interesting Sentences, June 13, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Attic (Paperback)

Geek Love is one of my favorite books ever, but this novel seemed like a Kerouac-style ramble without a plot, compelling characterization, beginning or ending. Underwater misery with no subtlety or explanation.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars "attic" will lead you to insanity, November 7, 2000

By 

Megan Dorrah (Eugene, Oregon USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Attic (Paperback)

Being a big fan of Geek Love, I was happy to find Attic. I wasn't sure what to expect, and what I found was a mess of prose. You are inside the mind of a crazy woman who finds herself in strange places and situations. You are given a first hand view of her thought process -- run-on sentences, vivid imagery, and confusion. I thoroughly enjoyed the ride. After reading this book, I felt insane myself. Not recommended for the mentally unstable.