Lowboy
- 5 Aug 2010
- 9781847671523
- £10.99
- 272 pp
- 129×198mm
- 19 Mar 2009
- 9781847675569
- £8.79
- 272 pp
In a few words
A compulsive literary page-turner – Jonathan Lethem meets Donnie Darko
In a few words
A compulsive literary page-turner – Jonathan Lethem meets Donnie Darko
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.
A twenty-first century Holden Caulfield.
Lowboy is exceptionally tender and acute . . . John Wray is a daring young writer.
James Wood
The New YorkerMore about
the book
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.
More about
the book
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?
Lowboy is exceptionally tender and acute . . . John Wray is a daring young writer.
James Wood
The New YorkerA smart, moving thriller, and a deeply imaginative one, too.
Uncompromising, gripping and generally excellent . . . Immensely satisfying.
Charles Bock
The New York Times Book ReviewOne of our most astonishing and relevant young writers.
A smart, moving thriller, and a deeply imaginative one, too.
Uncompromising, gripping and generally excellent . . . Immensely satisfying.
Charles Bock
The New York Times Book ReviewOne 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.
Gary Shteyngart, Author Of Absurdistan
John Wray
View profileJohn 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.
John Wray
View profileJohn 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 recently chosen as one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists 2007.
