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Ya! And John-Juan
Doug Woolf
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Description for Ya! And John-Juan
Paperback. Num Pages: 245 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 142 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
Well-respected throughout his career, Douglas Woolf created some of the most startlingly original works of the twentieth century. The two novels collected here create a dreamlike vision of America where helplessness prevails and the actions of the sane seem tinged with madness. Ya! takes place during the Christmas reunion of a penniless novelist and his teenage daughter at the nightmarish home of a super-American family; John-Juan begins with an amnesiac who finds himself in a Mexican border town with only his pajamas and watch before becoming part of a surreal and somewhat frightening community organized around "runners" that collect trash ... Read more
Well-respected throughout his career, Douglas Woolf created some of the most startlingly original works of the twentieth century. The two novels collected here create a dreamlike vision of America where helplessness prevails and the actions of the sane seem tinged with madness. Ya! takes place during the Christmas reunion of a penniless novelist and his teenage daughter at the nightmarish home of a super-American family; John-Juan begins with an amnesiac who finds himself in a Mexican border town with only his pajamas and watch before becoming part of a surreal and somewhat frightening community organized around "runners" that collect trash ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press United States
Number of pages
245
Condition
New
Number of Pages
246
Place of Publication
Normal, IL, United States
ISBN
9781564782816
SKU
V9781564782816
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Ref
99-15
About Doug Woolf
Woolf was well-respected throughout his career and created some of the most startlingly original works of the twentieth century. At the time of his death in 1992,he had published 10 novels and collections of short stories. Robert Creeley (1926-2005) published more than sixty books of poetry, prose, essays, and interviews in the United States and abroad, including "If I Were ... Read more
Reviews for Ya! And John-Juan
"Woolf's great qualities are a comic vision...and an independence of approach... He has discipline and a sense of style." - Robert R. Kirsch, Los Angeles Times "Woolf's work is single-minded in impulse - like Swift, a more obviously enraged but related ironist, he sets out to depict commonly ignored or denied principles of order." - Larry Kart, Chicago Tribune