![]() ![]() “An incredible feat.” ― The AV Club, (Grade: A) strange and involving novel.” ― Dwight Garner, The New York Times He has an instinctive understanding of fetid teenage emotional states and the ‘timelines of meaningless afternoons that ended somewhere big and terrible'. Darnielle's uncanny sense of what it's like to feel marginalized, an outsider, a freak. “Possibly the best novel of the year.” ― Chicagoist ![]() Together, they begin to dance.” ― Carmen Maria Machado, NPR.org In Darnielle's novel, as in his songs, the monstrously true and unbelievably beautiful press up against one another. The prose lives like Sean's imagination: a breathing, glowing thing. “John Darnielle is a great songwriter, tipping light toward every kind of human suffering, and his powers are on full display in Wolf in White Van. “A stunning meditation on the power of escape, and on the cat-and-mouse contest the self plays to deflect its own guilt.” ― Ethan Gilsdorf, The New York Times Book Review “An electric debut novel.” ― O: The Oprah Magazine The words soothe for sentences at a time, then strike with blunt force.” ― Carl Wilson, Slate Like Darnielle's songwriting, the prose is often cryptic and then stunningly clear, microscopically specific and then audaciously grand. “John Darnielle's amazing novel digs into an artist's unspoken fears. ![]()
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