Father knows less, or, Can I cook my sister? one dad's quest to answer his son's most baffling questions Hardback - 2007 - 1st Edition
by Wendell Jamieson
How a New York Times editor set out to answer the peculiarly marvelous questions of his precocious young son-and wound up on an unexpected journey of his own.
Wendell Jamieson's son, Dean, has always had a penchant for . . . odd questions. "Dad," he asked, apropos of nothing, "what would hurt more-getting run over by a car, or getting stung by a jellyfish?" "Dad, why do policemen like donuts?" "What's it feel like to get stabbed?""Does Mona Lisa wear shoes?" "Can I cook my sister?"
Because "Dad" was a newspaperman, he decided to seek out answers-and got swept up in the hunt. He spoke to movie directors and ship captains and brain surgeons and stabbing victims and lottery winners and museum curators and politicians and judges and compulsive shoppers and mothers-in-law and magicians-even Yoko Ono and a dominatrix.
But what began as a lark quickly grew into something larger. Blending a charming father-son journey with the surprising, sometimes hilarious questions and answers it spawned, Father Knows Less offers a heartwarming exploration of that childlike curiosity that lives within us all.
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- Title Father knows less, or, Can I cook my sister? one dad's quest to answer his son's most baffling questions
- Author Wendell Jamieson
- Binding Hardback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 272
- Language EN
- Publisher G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York
- Date 2007
- ISBN 9780399154423
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007023054
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