Ya! & John–Juan (American Literature) - Softcover

Woolf, Douglas; Creeley, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1564782816 ISBN 13: 9781564782816

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press, 2003

Synopsis

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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About the Authors

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1564782816
• ISBN 13: 9781564782816
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 249