YA! & John-Juan (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781564782816)

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.

Author: Douglas Woolf
ISBN-10: 1564782816
ISBN-13: 9781564782816
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2002
Pages: 246
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.50w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 03/15/2003 pg. 122