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Book SynopsisWell-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.
Trade Review"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
