YA! & John-Juan (American Literature) - Softcover

Woolf, Douglas

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9781564782816: YA! & John-Juan (American Literature)

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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 along the highways.

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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.

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"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

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PublisherDalkey Archive Press
Publication date2002
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ISBN 13 9781564782816
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