Lowboy
By turns suspenseful and comic, devastating and hopeful, Lowboy is a fearless exploration of youth, sex, and violence in contemporary America, seen through one boy s haunting and extraordinary vision.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 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. Read Lowboy Author John Wray – kino-fada.fr Let me preface this review with this I am in a rut A literary rut, a professional rut, a metaphysical rut, a rut rut Damn, I love the onomatopoeia that goes with that word try it grind your teeth together and spit the word out, let your tongue hit the back of your teeth with a little pfft Yeah, you got it So, it was with a heavy sigh that I picked up this book I can t fully blame the book for this meh of a rating Not really I wish I had something to blame Wray s writing has been d Let me preface this review with this I am in a rut A literary rut, a professional rut, a metaphysical rut, a rut rut Damn, I love the onomatopoeia that goes with that word try it grind your teeth together and spit the word out, let your tongue hit the back of your teeth with a little pfft Yeah, you got it So, it was with a heavy sigh that I picked up this book I can t fully blame the book for this meh of a rating Not really I wish I had something to blame Wray s writing has been described by other Goodreaders as lyrical , compassionate , poetic , chaotic Okay, no argument here There are some scenes inside of Lowboy s schizophrenic world that take my breath away mostly from lack of punctuation, but not alwaysAfter that the school spread out flatter and w...Did you know lowboy was the original name for oboe I learned so much from this book.FROM MY BLOG Walk along a street in downtown Seattle You see them everywhere Wild eyed men and women Dirty, dishevelled, mumbling to themselves or yelling at the universe Crazy people,like scary forces of nature than human beings Beings we nervously evade as we see them approach.Except, of course, they aren t non human John Wray s novel Lowboy shows us how much humanity schizophrenics do share with the rest of us a story being perhaps the only way we are ever apt to experience t FROM MY BLOG Walk along a street in downtown Seattle You see them everywhere Wild eyed men and women Dirty, dishevelled, mumbling to themselves or yelling at the universe Crazy people,like scary forces of nature than human beings Beings we nervously evade as we see them approach.Except, of course, they aren t non human John Wray s novel Lowboy shows us how much humanity schizophrenics do share with the rest of us a story being perhaps the only way we are ever apt to experience that commonality, unless we actually have the nerve to sit down and talk to one.Will Heller, who calls himself Lowboy, is a highly intelligent, unusually attractive 16 year old who possesses a detail...I don t know what to say This novel is truly a tour de force, a tense and suspenseful day in the life of a beautifully blonde, sixteen year old boy who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia I know the comparison is cliche, but imagine a Holden Caulfield like figure off his meds having escaped the mental institution in which he s been placed while searching the streets of New York City to lose his virginity in order to save the world from global warming John Wray burrows deep into the manically I don t know what to say This novel is truly a tour de force, a tense and suspenseful day in the life of a beautifully blonde, sixteen year old boy who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia I know the comparison is cliche, but imagine a Holden Caulfield like figure off his meds having escaped the mental institution in which he s been placed while searching the streets of New York City to lose his virginity in order to save the world from global warming John Wray burrows deep into the manically irrational yet poetically heartbreaking world of his central character Wray s use of language is masterful There is no logic to Lowboy s mental instability nor are we able to solve the mysteries of identity that lead him on this personal odyssey into the darkest corners of his ...There is this moment in John Wray s Lowboy where a character says to the schizophrenic hero Listen to me, Heller You re beautiful and you make me laugh and I want you to take me to that place that we just saw, but you need to stop saying things like that They creep me out, okay And you re not creepy And that completely sums up the experience of reading this novel, which spans roughly a day in the life of young teenager Will Lowboy Heller The story opens with him on the lam in the New There is this moment in John Wray s Lowboy where a character says to the schizophrenic hero Listen to me, Heller You re beautiful and you make me laugh and I want you to take me to that place that we just saw, but you need to stop saying things like that They creep me out, okay And you re not creepy And ...The immortal poet Chastity in 10 Things I Hate about You once said, I know you can be overwhelmed, and you can be underwhelmed, but can you ever just be whelmed I did not think so, until now Lowboy is a short, meandering book about Will Heller, a paranoid schizophrenic wandering around New York City, and also in alternating chapters about his mother and the police detective who have teamed up to search for him Will is on a strange, vague mission to cool down the earth before global warm The immortal poet Chastity in 10 Things I Hate about You once said, I know you can be overwhelmed, and you can be underwhelmed, but can you ever just be whelmed I did not think so, until now Lowboy is a short, meandering book about Will Heller, a paranoid schizophrenic wandering around New York City, and also in alternating chapters about his mother and the police detective who have teamed up to search for him Will is on a strange, vague mission to cool down the earth before global warming destroys it losing his virginity is a key component of the plan , and Violet Will s mother and Ali the detective are trying to locate him before he injures either himself or Emily, Will s former girlfriend whom he pushed...It s always hard for me to read fiction about topics I know too much about, though I m not so sure why Is it because I m irrationally, childishly possessive of my knowledge, or is itrespectable, like the research and inaccuracies areobvious then I don t know Everyone else loves this book, though, so I have to think my familiarity with schizophrenia was a distraction that kept me emotionally distant from what was probably a very well written book Similarly, being familiar with the It s always hard for me to read fiction about topics I know too much about, though I m not so sure why Is it because I m irrationally, childishly possessive of my knowledge, or is itrespectable, like the research and inaccuracies areobvious then I don t know Everyone else loves this book, though, so I have to think my familiarity with schizophrenia was a distraction that kept me emotionally distant from what was probably a very well written book Similarly, being familiar with the setting didn t make this fun, justirritating for example the Dr Zizmor subway ad references struck me as inside jokey and inorganic, instead of part of the story for real, though again, in this case, I don t know quite why For whatever reason I couldn t get into this book at all the characters never seemed real to me, even for a minute, and I couldn t get away from my image of John Wray researching second generation antipsychotics and mood stabilizers, ri... Lowboy un libro sulla malattia mentale e sulla solitudine dell uomo metropolitano Dall inizio alla fine si evince come ciascuno viva in un suo mondo, in una propria realt intrisa di percezioni e presupposti svincolati da una realt condivisa In pratica, l assunto che ciascuno a modo suo, sia uno schizofrenico con una propria realt e che quindi sia questa la ragione della solitudine dell uomo contemporaneo.L idea poteva essere interessante, ma sinceramente la traduzione piena di errori Lowboy un libro sulla malattia mentale e sulla solitudine dell uomo ...DNF Pretentious and annoying Disjointed and does not add a thing to the understanding of mental illness in teens Couldn t care less about the characters.Huh, so I went back and looked at Lowboy again, and I still think it s quite good, but this time around it feels a great deal thinner of character and has a number of unexplored unearned conveniences, especially concerning the treatment the mother s illness Still, it knocked me back hard and brought tears to my eyes Emotionally devastating, structurally perfect, and full of amazing sentences Wray creates a consistent internal logic to Lowboy s schizophrenia which, considering the inheren Huh, so I went back and looked at Lowboy again, and I still think it s quite good, but this time around it feels a great deal thinner of character and has a number of unexplored unearned conveniences, especially concerning the treatment the mother s illness Still, it knocked me back hard and brought tears to my eyes Emotionally devastating, structurally perfect, and full of amazing sentences Wray creates a consistent internal logic to Lowboy s schizophrenia which, considering the inherent contradiction, is quite a feat while also painting a kaleidoscopic, warped point of view that is as mad as it is memorable Lowboy reads like a thriller it s a g...
- English
- 09 April 2018 John Wray
- Hardcover
- 258 pages
- 0374194165
- John Wray
- Lowboy