Freakshow has occupied a unique niche in underground American literature since 1954. It's a novel which chronicles the somehow-disturbing love affair between Bat Fidler, a troubled, lonely guy and roust-about, and Fish Girl, a beautiful but disfigured sideshow performer, providing amazingly authentic glimpses into both carnival and prison life and defiantly unmasking the freakshow that usually passes for contemporary love. Not for the squeamish.