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Lowboy

Lowboy

by JohnWray (Author)

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    Paperback 2009

    $3.47
Synopsis

In the tunnels beneath New York a young man is missing. With each passing minute he heads deeper underground, further from the world of light and reason and closer to the moment of his great surrender. Above ground Ali Lateef of the NYPD is assigned the case. The boy's mother Violet is reluctant to help and Emily, Lowboy's girlfriend and only confidante, appears to have vanished too Can Lateef find Lowboy before it's too late?

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 256
 Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Published: 19 Mar 2009
ISBN 10: 1847671519
ISBN 13: 9781847671516

Media Reviews
One of our most astonishing and relevant young writers. * * Esquire * *
America's most original young writer has given us a book for the ages. Compelling, compassionate, and deeply unsettling, Lowboy introduces us to the brilliant sixteen-year-old Will Heller, a Holden Caulfield for our troubled times. -- GARY SHTEYNGART, author of Absurdistan
Sucks you into the tunnels under New York and doesn't let you go until its perfect ending. Wray effortlessly portrays the cracked and distorted mind of his teenage hero. What a beguiling novel. -- TIM PEARS, author of In the Place of Fallen Leaves
A psychotic, subterranean, environmentally conscious coming-of-age novel. It is also an affecting and affectionate love letter to New York. -- NATHAN ENGLANDER, author of The Ministry of Special Cases
With this tightly wound novel, Wray reaches new heights. Captivating . . . and brilliantly hallucinatory. [Starred review] * * Publishers Weekly * *
The novel has a thriller-like pace and Wray keeps us riveted. The opening pages recall Salinger, but the denouement and haunting aftertaste may make the stunned reader whisper Dostoevsky . Yes, it really is that good. [Starred review] * * Kirkus * *
A dizzying, assured novel which flirts with tough subject matter. * * Waterstone's Books Quarterly * *
A breathtaking journey. * * O, The Oprah Magazine * *
It's hard not to admire this bullet train of a book for its chilling power. * * Bookforum * *
A lip-biting thriller. * * Marie Claire * *
Uncompromising [and] . . . excellent. A meticulously constructed novel, immensely satisfying in the perfect, precise beat of its plot. * * New York Times Book Review * *
A supsensful story by one of Granta's Best Young American novelists. * * Dazed and Confused * *
A brilliantly imagined underworld beneath Manhattan and an unusually vivid portrait of a young man about to be overwhelmed by his psychotic imagination. It's very well done and has been rapturously received by critics on both sides of the Atlantic. * * Literary Review * *
John Wray invests his anti-hero's skewed perspective with empathy and complexity, as well as offering up a finely detailed portrait of multicultural New York that makes it easy to see why he was named one of the US's est young writers by Granta magazine. -- Claire Allfree * * Metro * *
A pacey page-turner, but one which succeeds in reflecting convincingly the turmoil and disorientation of a schizophrenic mind without getting bogged down in the science. John Wray's prose is at once spare and powerful, comic and profound, and as his protagonist's fate unfolds, the suspense rises until the very last line. -- Daniel Bentley * * Irish News * *
A thriller-like pace . . . the story is a gripping one, and Wray's prose is similarly absorbing. -- Sarah Keating * * Sunday Business Post * *
Author Bio
John Wray was born in Washington, DC in 1971. His first novel, The Right Hand of Sleep (Vintage UK/Knopf) won a Whiting Writers' Award. He was chosen as one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists 2007.