Wearing Dad's Head
by Barry Yourgrau
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Author: Barry YourgrauEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1999-05-12
ISBN: 155970487X
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
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Book Review: A Brother Grimm for the next century
Summary: 5 Stars
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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