Bad animals
Subtitle: a father's accidental education in autism
By: Joel Yanofsky
Publisher: Arcade Pub.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781611454147
Subjects: Family relationships; Autistic children; Canadian Authors; Parents of autistic children; Biography
Other titles: Father's accidental education in autism
Description: 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.
Notes: "First published in Canada by Viking Canada, 2011"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [266]-272).