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Wearing Dad's Head

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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.

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.

short sharp pieces about the family. must read

This book was very good. This book was about a single dad who is a nerd scientist. There's tree guys who always pick on Joe, the dad. One day Joe came into his office and his invention was gone and he knew wqho took it and he needed it to show his boss. He got mad and fell and this invisible chemical fell onto his body which made him invisable. I liked this book and i would reccomend this book to any body who likes science.