Wolf in White Van -- John Darnielle, Paperback

A New York Times Bestseller. Nominated for the National Book Award, Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction, and Winner of the Alex Award, One of the Most Compelling Books of the Year (Blake Butler, Vice)

Beautifully written and unexpectedly moving, John Darnielle's Wolf in White Van is an indelible novel, a hymn for those who inhabit lonely universes, and a harbor for anyone who has sought refuge in a reality other than their own (Patrick deWitt).

Isolated by a disfiguring injury since the age of seventeen, Sean Phillips crafts imaginary worlds for strangers to explore. As the creator of Trace Italian-a text-based role-playing game that's played through the mail-Sean guides subscribers through his intricately imagined terrain, turn by turn, as they search out sanctuary in a ravaged, savage future America. But when Lance and Carrie, two teenaged seekers of the Trace, take their play outside the game, disaster strikes, and Sean is called on to account for it. In the process, he is pulled back through time, toward the beginning and the climax: the moment of his own self-inflicted departure from the world in which most people live.

Author: John Darnielle
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 09/01/2015
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781250074713

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 10/04/2015 pg. 28

About the Author
John Darnielle is a writer, composer, guitarist, and vocalist for the band the Mountain Goats; he is widely considered one of the best lyricists of his generation. He lives in Durham, North Carolina, with his wife and son.