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.
“A twenty-first century Holden Caulfield.”
observer
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“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
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 recently chosen as one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists 2007.