YA! & John-Juan

By Douglas Woolf

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1564782816
• ISBN13: 9781564782816
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 7.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher