Bibliograph

Bad animals, a father's accidental education in autism, Joel Yanofsky

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Bad animals, a father's accidental education in autism, Joel Yanofsky

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Bad animals

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Oclc number

798359641

Responsibility statement

Joel Yanofsky

Sub title

a father's accidental education in autism

Summary

A veteran book reviewer, Yanofsky has spent a lifetime immersed in literature (not to mention old movies and old jokes), which he calls shtick. This account of a year in the life of a family describes a father's struggle to enter his son's world, the world of autism, using the materials he knows best: self-help books, feel-good memoirs, literary classics from the Bible to Dr. Seuss, old movies, and, yes, shtick. Funny, wrenching, and unfailingly candid, Bad Animals is both an exploration of a baffling condition and a quirky love story told by the author

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