{"product_id":"9781250074713","title":"Wolf in White Van","description":"\u003cp\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Bestseller\u003cbr\u003eNominated 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, \u003ci\u003eVice\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIsolated 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeautifully written and unexpectedly moving, \u003ci\u003eWolf in White Van\u003c\/i\u003e 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).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47029354987760,"sku":"9781250074713","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781250074713_p0.jpg?v=1763701593","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781250074713","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}