Father Knows Less Or: "Can I Cook My Sister?": One Dad's Quest to Answer His Son's Most Baffling Questions
by Jamieson, Wendell
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0399154426
- ISBN 13
- 9780399154423
- Seller
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About This Item
Book and dust jacket are in fine condition. The image provided is the actual book I'm offering for sale. No markings or damage to any pages. No sunning. No clips. Structure of the book (covers, binding, spine, hinges) is tight and free of damage. Page block is nice and square. Cut pages. Additional photos will be provided upon request in order to ensure the quality and integrity of your book purchase.
Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- The Dusty Bookcase (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0003127
- Title
- Father Knows Less Or: "Can I Cook My Sister?": One Dad's Quest to Answer His Son's Most Baffling Questions
- Author
- Jamieson, Wendell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 258 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade.
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0399154426
- ISBN 13
- 9780399154423
- Publisher
- G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2007
- Size
- Octavo
- LCCN
- 2007023054
- Keywords
- Child rearing; Children's questions and answers; Family; Humor; Non-Fiction; Questions & Answers; Reference; Topic
- Bookseller catalogs
- Family; Non-fiction;
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