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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
September 2014
On Sale: September 16, 2014
ISBN: 0374292086
EAN: 9780374292089
Kindle: B00IWVELRC
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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 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.
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