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Lowboy
John Wray
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Description for Lowboy
Paperback. In the tunnels beneath New York a young man is missing. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 194.
Underground, in the tunnels beneath New York, a young man is missing.
Above ground, Ali Lateef of the NYPD is assigned the case. The boy's mother is reluctant to help and Emily, his girlfriend and only confidante, appears to have vanished too. Can Lateef find Lowboy before it's too late?
An extraordinary chronicle of a desperate young man and the race to find him, Lowboy is a modern masterpiece.
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847671523
SKU
V9781847671523
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Ref
99-24
About John Wray
John Wray is the author of The Right Hand of Sleep, which won a Whiting Writers' Award, and Canaan's Tongue. He was chosen as one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists in 2007. Born in 1971, he lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Reviews for Lowboy
John Wray is the Next Wave of American fiction, and Lowboy, his crazy excavation of New York's underground, is brilliant
Jonathan Lethem A twenty-first century Holden Caulfield.
Observer
Lowboy is exceptionally tender and acute . . . John Wray is a daring young writer.
James Wood
The New Yorker
A smart, moving thriller, and a deeply imaginative one, too.
Time Out
Uncompromising, gripping and generally excellent . . . Immensely satisfying.
Charles Bock
The New York Times Book Review
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 The novel has a thriller-like pace, and Wray keeps us riveted and guessing . . . The opening pages recall Salinger's Holden Caulfield, but the denouement and haunting aftertaste may make the stunned reader whisper "Dostoevsky." Yes, it really is that good.
Kirkus
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
Jonathan Lethem A twenty-first century Holden Caulfield.
Observer
Lowboy is exceptionally tender and acute . . . John Wray is a daring young writer.
James Wood
The New Yorker
A smart, moving thriller, and a deeply imaginative one, too.
Time Out
Uncompromising, gripping and generally excellent . . . Immensely satisfying.
Charles Bock
The New York Times Book Review
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 The novel has a thriller-like pace, and Wray keeps us riveted and guessing . . . The opening pages recall Salinger's Holden Caulfield, but the denouement and haunting aftertaste may make the stunned reader whisper "Dostoevsky." Yes, it really is that good.
Kirkus
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