Wolf in White Van Contributor(s): Darnielle, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 1250074711 ISBN-13: 9781250074713 Publisher: Picador USA OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2015 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Psychological |
Dewey: FIC |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.5" W x 8.2" (0.45 lbs) 224 pages |
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Publisher Description: A New York Times Bestseller. Nominated for the National Book Award, Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction, and Winner of the Alex Award, One of the Most Compelling Books of the Year (Blake Butler, Vice) Beautifully written and unexpectedly moving, John Darnielle's Wolf in White Van is an indelible novel, a hymn for those who inhabit lonely universes, and a harbor for anyone who has sought refuge in a reality other than their own (Patrick deWitt). Isolated by a disfiguring injury since the age of seventeen, Sean Phillips crafts imaginary worlds for strangers to explore. As the creator of Trace Italian-a text-based role-playing game that's played through the mail-Sean guides subscribers through his intricately imagined terrain, turn by turn, as they search out sanctuary in a ravaged, savage future America. But when Lance and Carrie, two teenaged seekers of the Trace, take their play outside the game, disaster strikes, and Sean is called on to account for it. In the process, he is pulled back through time, toward the beginning and the climax: the moment of his own self-inflicted departure from the world in which most people live. |
Contributor Bio(s): Darnielle, John: - John Darnielle's first novel, Wolf in White Van, was a New York Times bestseller, National Book Award nominee, and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for first fiction, and widely hailed as one of the best novels of the year. He is the writer, composer, guitarist, and vocalist for the band the Mountain Goats. He lives in Durham, North Carolina, with his wife and sons. |