A Man Jumps Out of an Airplane
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This is Barry Yourgrau's debut book, the one that put him on the literary map, where he remains a landmark of imaginative prowess.
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In A Man Jumps Out of an Airplane, the author focuses his wide-awake subconscious mind on thematic standards—father, mother, lover, sex, the imagination itself—and recasts them into madcap parable, surrealistic fables, and grotesque fantasies. Here are dreamscapes compressed into razor-sharp prose, where a twelve inch girl lolls in her date's spaghetti, where a warrior steps out of the Iliadas an intruder in a backyard swimming pool, where a man climbs inside a cow on a bet.
Hilarious, subversive, and uniquely entertaining, Yourgrau treats readers to a circus of surreal, impish beauty, poignant flashes of tragedy, and a headstand of everyday reality.
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