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.

About the Author
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. Robert Creeley (1926-2005) published more than sixty books of poetry, prose, essays, and interviews in the United States and abroad, including "If I Were Writing This, Selected Poems 1945-1990, The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1975-2005, "and "The Island. "His many honors include the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award, the Frost Medal, the Shelley Memorial Award, and the Bollingen Prize in Poetry. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and Distinguished Professor in the Graduate Program in Literary Arts at Brown University.

Reviews
"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



Book Information
ISBN 9781564782816
Author Douglas Woolf
Format Paperback
Page Count 246
Imprint Dalkey Archive Press
Publisher Dalkey Archive Press
Weight(grams) 308g
Dimensions(mm) 206mm * 151mm * 18mm