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About the Book

A teenager is lost in the New York subway. Above ground Ali Lateef of the NYPD is assigned the missing persons case. Lateef learns that the boy - real name William but who refers to himself as Lowboy - was finishing a sentence in psychiatric care after pushing his closest friend onto the tracks of the subway. With the grudging help of Lowboy's mother, Violet, Lateef must find Lowboy before his medication wears off and before he becomes a danger to himself and others. With each passing hour Lowboy is driven ever deeper into the tunnels and chambers of the secret city underneath Manhattan, further from the world of light and reason, and closer to the moment of his great surrender.

About the Author :
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.

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One of our most astonishing and relevant young writers. 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. 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. A psychotic, subterranean, environmentally conscious coming-of-age novel. It is also an affecting and affectionate love letter to New York. With this tightly wound novel, Wray reaches new heights. Captivating . . . and brilliantly hallucinatory. [Starred review] 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] A dizzying, assured novel which flirts with tough subject matter. A breathtaking journey. It's hard not to admire this bullet train of a book for its chilling power. A lip-biting thriller. Uncompromising [and] . . . excellent. A meticulously constructed novel, immensely satisfying in the perfect, precise beat of its plot. A supsensful story by one of Granta's Best Young American novelists. 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. 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. 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. A thriller-like pace . . . the story is a gripping one, and Wray's prose is similarly absorbing.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781847671516
  • Publisher: Canongate Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Canongate Books
  • Height: 233 mm
  • No of Pages: 256
  • Weight: 365 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1847671519
  • Publisher Date: 19 Mar 2009
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Width: 153 mm


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