false 3380813 9 Early one morning in New York City, Will Heller, a sixteen-year old 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. <I>Lowboy</I>, 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, <I>Lowboy </I>is a fearless exploration of youth, sex, and violence in contemporary America, seen through one boy’s haunting and extraordinary vision. 3420461 3 3 2009 Lowboy total:525|5:60|4:177|3:186|2:75|1:27| 525 1743 1713 174 4 11 false false Mon Apr 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 04:55:42 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 27 05:52:38 -0700 2009
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On Sale: 3/11/2009
ISBN: 978-0-374-19416-1
ISBN-10: 0-374-19416-5

A sixteen-year-old boy is about to combust. The ever-increasing fever within his body needs to be released, but it is more than a story of a young m...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Nov 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Oct 27 11:57:20 -0700 2009 Fri Nov 06 06:02:32 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Apr 04 18:07:32 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 04 18:08:13 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Fri Jun 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 07:28:17 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 07:32:02 -0700 2009 1 more...]]>