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Product Description: In Haunted Traveller, his most personal and ambitious work, Barry Yourgrau takes the reader on a postmodern literary journey like no other. Here are forty-four fantastic episodes that together paint an imaginary memoir of one man’s yearning, alienated passage through life, as written by this “odd, wild, and brilliant master of absurd anxieties” (Patrick McGrath)...read more

Hardcover:

9781559704823 | Arcade Pub, May 12, 1999, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: A blend of travel writing, fable, and adventure tale, offers an exploration of the idea and personal nature of travel

Paperback:

9781628727005 | Arcade Pub, September 6, 2016, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: In Haunted Traveller, his most personal and ambitious work, Barry Yourgrau takes the reader on a postmodern literary journey like no other.

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Product Description: “I can never remember my dreams, so Mr. Yourgrau’s stories are a pretty good substitute.” —David Byrne Barry Yourgrau’s imagination makes critics reach: Fellini? Kafka? Freud in a funny hat? Yourgrau is a fantasist like no other...read more

Paperback:

9781628727043 | Arcade Pub, September 6, 2016, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: “I can never remember my dreams, so Mr.
9781559704878 | Arcade Pub, May 12, 1999, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Brief dreamlike sketches deal with a safari in the suburbs, a mother struck by lightning, a cow wearing lingerie, and a visit from dead parents

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Product Description: Hilarious and poignant, a glimpse into the mind of someone who is both a sufferer from and an investigator of clutter.Millions of Americans struggle with severe clutter and hoarding. New York writer and bohemian Barry Yourgrau is one of them...read more

Hardcover:

9780393241778 | W W Norton & Co Inc, August 10, 2015, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Hilarious and poignant, a glimpse into the mind of someone who is both a sufferer from and an investigator of clutter.

Paperback:

9780393352900 | W W Norton & Co Inc, August 2, 2016, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Hilarious and poignant, a glimpse into the mind of someone who is both a sufferer from and an investigator of clutter.

CD/Spoken Word:

9781681414065 | Mp3 una edition (Dreamscape Media Llc, August 10, 2015), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Millions of Americans struggle with severe clutter and hoarding.
9781681414027 | Unabridged edition (Dreamscape Media Llc, August 10, 2015), cover price $49.99

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Product Description: Yourgrau offers an imaginary travel memoir whose nameless narrator undergoes outlandish, nightmarish escapades in variegated, unnamed locales and psychic landscapes.

Paperback:

9781611451634 | Arcade Pub, April 18, 2011, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Yourgrau offers an imaginary travel memoir whose nameless narrator undergoes outlandish, nightmarish escapades in variegated, unnamed locales and psychic landscapes.

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Product Description: A collection of short stories.

Paperback:

9781611451030 | Arcade Pub, April 18, 2011, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A collection of short stories.
9780517587171 | Reprint edition (Three Rivers Pr, February 1, 1992), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The author puts his imagination in a dream state to create a collection of very short stories that depict characters finding their pillows filled with bones and their fathers floating away like balloons

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Product Description: Barry Yourgrau's celebrated second book, which focuses his transfiguring surreal imagination on our most personal institution: family.

Paperback:

9781611452969 | Arcade Pub, April 18, 2011, cover price $13.50 | About this edition: Barry Yourgrau's celebrated second book, which focuses his transfiguring surreal imagination on our most personal institution: family.
9780879052836 | Gibbs Smith, December 1, 1987, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Brief dreamlike sketches deal with a safari in the suburbs, a mother struck by lightning, a cow wearing lingerie, and a visit from dead parents

Forty-three stories feature such characters as guardian angels who run away from their charges, witches who use the Internet to stalk their victims, and pandas who work as assassins.

Hardcover:

9780060579784 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, May 1, 2005, cover price $11.99 | About this edition: Forty-three stories feature such characters as guardian angels who run away from their charges, witches who use the Internet to stalk their victims, and pandas who work as assassins.

Paperback:

9780060579807 | Reprint edition (Harper Trophy, May 1, 2007), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Forty-three stories feature such characters as guardian angels who run away from their charges, witches who use the Internet to stalk their victims, and pandas who work as assassins.

Miscellaneous:

9780062034151 | Harpercollins, September 7, 2010, cover price $4.99

CD/Spoken Word:

9780060821128 | Unabridged edition (Harpercollins Childrens, May 1, 2005), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Forty-three stories feature such characters as guardian angels who run away from their charges, witches who use the Internet to stalk their victims, and pandas who work as assassins.

Library:

9780060579791 | Joanna Cotler Books, May 1, 2005, cover price $13.89 | About this edition: Forty-three stories feature such characters as guardian angels who run away from their charges, witches who use the Internet to stalk their victims, and pandas who work as assassins.

Since the NASTYest things come in tiny packages, this delightfully twisted collection features super short stories, poems, dialogues, and one-sentence tales guaranteed to make readers laugh, shiver, and shudder.
By Neil Swaab (illustrator) and Barry Yourgrau

Hardcover:

9780060776763 | Joanna Cotler Books, May 1, 2007, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: A collection of humorous short stories, poems, and one sentence tales, featuring such characters as a boy who swallows a cell phone, two shopping goblins, and a magician who makes an entire town disappear.

Library:

9780060776770 | Joanna Cotler Books, May 1, 2007, cover price $13.89 | About this edition: A collection of humorous short stories, poems, and one sentence tales, featuring such characters as a boy who swallows a cell phone, two shopping goblins, and a magician who makes an entire town disappear.

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When his mother gets kidnapped by goblins, Rollo is certain that all his years of reading comic books will finally serve its purpose as he heads off to face evil doctors, vicious toy poodles, and other curses and creatures during his dangerous quest to locate and free his mother.

Hardcover:

9780060579814 | Joanna Cotler Books, May 1, 2006, cover price $11.99 | About this edition: When his mother is kidnapped by goblins, Rollo, inspired by his favorite comic book character, Su-ichi, Samurai Swordboy, embarks on a rescue mission to Fairyland, aided by imaginary friends and a set of talking false teeth.

Library:

9780060579821 | Joanna Cotler Books, May 1, 2006, cover price $13.89 | About this edition: When his mother is kidnapped by goblins, Rollo, inspired by his favorite comic book character, Su-ichi, Samurai Swordboy, embarks on a rescue mission to Fairyland, aided by imaginary friends and a set of talking false teeth.

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When his parents leave him in the care of his mysterious Uncle Dudley, young Duncan Peckle's plans for a quiet summer vacation are put aside as his uncle sets up a collection of magical machinery in the attic that soon leads to encounters with goblins, invisibility spells, and many other strange happenings.
By Tony Auth (illustrator) and Barry Yourgrau

School and Library:

9780763619350 | Candlewick Pr, June 1, 2004, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: While under the temporary care of his 'curious and marvelous' Uncle Dudley, eleven-year-old Duncan Peckle has a summer of adventures which include magic spells, goblins, and bubble-riding.

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Product Description: Uruguayan/French, tr George Bogin (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Paperback:

9781559704861 | Arcade Pub, May 12, 1999, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Uruguayan/French, tr George Bogin

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Product Description: From the man The New York Times Book  Review called "an uncommon  diagnostician of the curiosities of the human heart" and  hailed on NPR (National Public Radio) as "the  stand-up comedian of the unconscious" comes  this extraordinary new collction of metaphor-rich,  wildly imaginative short-short stories...read more

Paperback:

9780385313766 | Delta, March 1, 1995, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: From the man The New York Times Book  Review called "an uncommon  diagnostician of the curiosities of the human heart" and  hailed on NPR (National Public Radio) as "the  stand-up comedian of the unconscious" comes  this extraordinary new collction of metaphor-rich,  wildly imaginative short-short stories.

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