- Paperback: 128 pages
- Publisher: Gibbs Smith (Dec 1987)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 087905283X
- ISBN-13: 978-0879052836
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 13.5 x 1.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,272,542 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Brief dreamlike sketches deal with a safari in the suburbs, a mother struck by lightning, a cow wearing lingerie, and a visit from dead parents.
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I can never remember my dreams, so Barry Yourgrau's stories are a pretty good substitute.--David Byrne
I can never remember my dreams, so Barry Yourgrau's stories are a pretty good substitute.--David Byrne
Startling, Rabelaisian grotesqueries and the primal imagery of Grimm's fairy tales.--Elle
Barry Yourgrau manages to articulate your most bugged-out daydreams.--Adam Horovitz (Ad Rock of the Beastie Boys)
Odd, true, and thoroughly hilarious.--Susan Cheever, author of "Note Found in a Bottle" --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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Format:Paperback
short sharp pieces about the family. must read.
Format:Paperback
This is second Barry Yourgrau book I've read-- after his newest, Haunted Traveller, which is a wonder. This is another kind of wonder. To wit, the narratives of a son (as a boy, as a man, and interchangable) and his parents. But family life through the nakes looking glass of the subconscious, of the chuild's eye. It's some of the most vivid & gleeful & wildly touching writing I've ever encountered. This has been my reading revelation this spring-- Barry Yourgrau. Wherever he is (in an apmnt, in a madhouse, already lifted up to heaven), I salute him. This book is, as they say, a classic. Couple more to go.
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Wearing Dad's Head
24 Dec 1999
Format:Paperback
Wearing Dad's Head is a wonderful book of short stories written in the inimitable style of Barry Yourgrau. Reading his page long short stories is like being caught in a dream: anything can and frequently does happen. Wearing Dad's Head is entertaining, but the author's "A Man Jumps out of an Airplane" is a more creative and illuminating example of his work.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
A Brother Grimm for the next century
8 Jun 1999
Format:Paperback
This is second Barry Yourgrau book I've read-- after his newest, Haunted Traveller, which is a wonder. This is another kind of wonder. To wit, the narratives of a son (as a boy, as a man, and interchangable) and his parents. But family life through the nakes looking glass of the subconscious, of the chuild's eye. It's some of the most vivid & gleeful & wildly touching writing I've ever encountered. This has been my reading revelation this spring-- Barry Yourgrau. Wherever he is (in an apmnt, in a madhouse, already lifted up to heaven), I salute him. This book is, as they say, a classic. Couple more to go.
one of the best books ever
10 Jun 1999
Format:Paperback
short sharp pieces about the family. must read
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