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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
March 2009
On Sale: March 3, 2009
272 pages
ISBN: 0374194165
EAN: 9780374194161
Hardcover
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Early one morning in New York City, Will Heller, a sixteen-
yearold paranoid schizophrenic, gets on an uptown B train
alone. Like most people he knows, Will believes the world
is being destroyed by climate change; unlike most people,
he’s convinced he can do something about it. Unknown to his
doctors, unknown to the police—unknown even to Violet
Heller, his devoted mother—Will alone holds the key to the
planet’s salvation. To cool down the world, he has to cool
down his own overheating body: to cool down his body, he
has to find one willing girl. And he already has someone in
mind. Lowboy, John Wray’s third novel, tells the story of
Will’s fantastic and terrifying odyssey through the city’s
tunnels, back alleys, and streets in search of Emily
Wallace, his one great hope, and of Violet Heller’s
desperate attempts to locate her son before psychosis
claims him completely. She is joined by Ali Lateef, a
missing-persons specialist, who gradually comes to discover
that more is at stake than the recovery of a runaway teen:
Violet—beautiful, enigmatic, and as profoundly at odds with
the world as her son—harbors a secret that Lateef will
discover at his own peril. Suspenseful and comic,
devastating and hopeful by turns, Lowboy is a fearless
exploration of youth, sex, and violence in contemporary
America, seen through one boy’s haunting and extraordinary
vision.
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