Wolf in White Van (Signed First Edition)

Darnielle, John

ISBN 10: 0374292086 / ISBN 13: 9780374292089

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2014

About this Item

New York: FSG, 2014 First edition. First printing (with full number line including 1). Hardbound. Very Fine in a very fine jacket. A pristine unread copy. Publisher's price intact on front jacket flap ($24.00). SIGNED AND DATED BY AUTHOR on title page in month of publication (name only), September 2014. Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free. The first novel by the Mountain Goats' vocalist. Octavo, 207 pages. "Wolf in White Van" follows Sean Phillips, a reclusive game designer living with the aftermath of a disfiguring accident, whose text-based mail-order role-playing game creates an unexpected connection between players and life itself. John Darnielle (b. 1967) made his fiction debut with this novel, which was longlisted for the 2014 National Book Award. He went on to publish "Universal Harvester" (2017) and "Devil House" (2022).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Wolf in White Van (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374292086
• ISBN 13: 9780374292089
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

The New York Times Bestseller
Long-listed for the 2014 National Book Award in fiction
Winner of the 2015 Alex Award for adult books with special appeal for young adults

Welcome to Trace Italian, a game of strategy and survival! You may now make your first move. Isolated by a disfiguring injury since the age of seventeen, Sean Phillips crafts imaginary worlds for strangers to play in. From his small apartment in southern California, he orchestrates fantastic adventures where possibilities, both dark and bright, open in the boundaries between the real and the imagined. As the creator of Trace Italian―a text-based, role-playing game played through the mail―Sean guides players from around the world through his intricately imagined terrain, which they navigate and explore, turn by turn, seeking sanctuary in a ravaged, savage future America.

Lance and Carrie are high school students from Florida, explorers of the Trace. But when they take their play into the real world, disaster strikes, and Sean is called to account for it. In the process, he is pulled back through time, tunneling toward the moment of his own self-inflicted departure from the world in which most people live.

Brilliantly constructed, Wolf in White Van unfolds in reverse until we arrive at both the beginning and the climax: the event that has shaped so much of Sean's life. Beautifully written and unexpectedly moving, John Darnielle's audacious and gripping debut novel is a marvel of storytelling brio and genuine literary delicacy.

About the Author

John Darnielle’s first novel, Wolf in White Van, was a New York Times bestseller, National Book Award nominee, and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for first fiction, and widely hailed as one of the best novels of the year. He is the writer, composer, guitarist, and vocalist for the band the Mountain Goats. He lives in Durham, North Carolina, with his wife and sons.