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Original Title:	Wolf in White Van
ISBN:	0374292086 (ISBN13: 9780374292089)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	National Book Award Nominee for Fiction (2014), ALA Alex Award (2015), Debut-Litzer Award Nominee for Fiction (2015)

Wolf in White Van Hardcover | Pages: 224 pages

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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 17, 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, roleplaying 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.

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Title	:	Wolf in White Van
Author	:	John Darnielle
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 224 pages
Published	:	September 16th 2014 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary. Science Fiction. Novels

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Wolf in White Van has received excellent advance reviews, and now has been longlisted for the National Book Award. I knew nothing about the book and its author before picking it up - I only read it because of the title and the NBA nomination. The latter is a particular surprise, considering that it's a debut novel and that the author is more widely known for being a musician and leading an indie band.The book introduces Sean Philips, who at the age of 17 suffered a serious accident - one which

I am loathe to write too much about Wolf in White Van. As much as any book I can recall, it's something I don't want to spoil in any fashion for potential readers. It's a stunner...a gem...a cosmic gut-punch.And spoiling John Darnielle's* debut novel in any traditional sense isn't really possible. I would argue that while the how-and-why details of the story comprise the central narrative questions, the point of the book is the impossibility of answering them in any objective way. Like life

I did finish it, but quite a few times I considered quitting. Only the fact that it was on the short side gave me motivation to continue.First off the blurb is very misleading. I was under the impression I would be reading something scifi, on the order of Ready Player One, nope, not even close. Secondly the whole story is basically inside one characters head. I'm a reader who doesn't enjoy stories that are heavy on introspection. Especially when the character has too much self over analyzing of

John Darnielle's Wolf in White Van is quirky and cool, tremendously creative and a little bewildering. How's that for a reading experience?When Sean Phillips was 17 he suffered a disfiguring injury that left him near death. Even years later, people still stop and stare at him when they see him, and he lives an isolated life, practically estranged from his parents, and apart from periodic errands, he sees only his doctors and a visiting nurse who helps care for him.While Sean was recovering in

I first learned of this book a couple of years ago in Austin, Texas. It was a highlighted book - front center -at "Book People".....the wonderful famous bookstore.Standing next to another customer he told me how much he loved the book and had read it twice. The more the guy talked - I was sure it wasn't a book for me. ( not bring much into games...but I enjoyed the strangers excitement anyway)Later I remember seeing the book begin to pop up on Goodreads... with varied ratings. I don't remember

Upon finishing Wolf in White Van, I spent a good hour reading reviews - what were they seeing that I couldn't? That was back in August. Now, weeks later, I've gone back and looked at those reviews again, the glowing praise, the life-changing commentary. Still I'm not getting it and that more than anything is what frustrates me. Even when I don't like a book I can still see the other side, understand just what its fans find so appealing. That's not the case here. Wolf in White Van is barely over

This is the kind of book that shouldn't have an ending. Really, the author should have created a subscription service where you mail him a posted envelope, and he sends you the next chapter. The avid readers will get their "bottomless" fill of the book and it won't have to stop. Not officially. You won't have to let your eyes linger over the final words thinking, this is it, is it? And you feel a sick loneliness and you miss a person you've never met and that doesn't even exist. The novel