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About The Book
I can never remember my dreams, so Mr. Yourgrau’s stories are a pretty good substitute.” David Byrne
Barry Yourgrau’s imagination makes critics reach: Fellini? Kafka? Freud in a funny hat? Yourgrau is a fantasist like no other. His stories run brief and hallucinatorily vivid in style, heart-jarring and intimate in emotion. As Susan Cheever puts it: Odd, true, and thoroughly hilarious.”
Here is Barry Yourgrau’s celebrated second book, which focuses his transfiguring surreal imagination on our most personal institution: family. Wearing Dad’s Head constructs an oedipal uproar of genres and realities, preserving the wild poetry and pathos of childhood, young and old. Dream awake in the Yourgrau domestic universe, where father and son go on safari in the suburbs, mother has fun being struck by lightning, a cow gets dolled up in lingerie, and a family ghost whines on and on about a tweed coat. Where parents die but just won’t go away. No other writer today can twist reality with such glee and tender-hearted poignancy. Wearing Dad’s Heada classic of its own genrewill undoubtedly enchant and stupefy readers.
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Product Details
- Publisher: Arcade (September 27, 2016)
- Length: 192 pages
- ISBN13: 9781628727043
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Raves and Reviews
Startling Rabelaisian grotesqueries and the primal imagery of Grimm’s fairy tales.” Elle
One could only wish that most of our better known playwrights were writing at the level of Yourgrau’s fiction.” Los Angeles Times
There’s some Charles Addams in Yourgrau’s work, some Maurice Sendakand surprisingly, tender lyricism.” San Francisco Examiner
Startling Rabelaisian grotesqueries and the primal imagery of Grimm’s fairy tales.” Elle
One could only wish that most of our better known playwrights were writing at the level of Yourgrau’s fiction.” Los Angeles Times
There’s some Charles Addams in Yourgrau’s work, some Maurice Sendakand surprisingly, tender lyricism.” San Francisco Examiner
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