By John Wray
ISBN-10: 0312429339
ISBN-13: 9780312429331
Early one morning in long island urban, Will Heller, a sixteen-year-old paranoid schizophrenic, will get on an uptown B teach on my own. Will is on a undertaking to avoid wasting the world from international warming—to do it, although, he'll have to calm down his personal physique first. And for that he'll want one prepared girl. Lowboy tells the tale of Will’s odyssey in the course of the city’s tunnels, again alleys, and streets looking for Emily Wallace, his one nice hope. It also follows his mother, Violet Heller, as she attempts desperately to find her son before psychosis claims him completely. Violet is joined through Ali Lateef, a missing-persons professional, who learns over the process the day that extra is at stake than the restoration of a runaway youngster: Will Heller has a chilling case background, and Violet—beautiful, enigmatic, and as tormented as her son—harbors a mystery that Lateef will detect at his personal peril.
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The scrawny woman let her arms drop to her side and shook her head. " Fainy was sore. He didn't "Come answer. here, honied tpnes, "allow the immortal bard: Lowliness is Fenian," me to said Doc Bingham in remind you of the words of your ambition's ladder Whereto the climber upward turns his face But when he once attains the topmost round He then unto the ladder turns his back "You must be hungry. " piece of pie," said the old woman. " said Fainy, coming forward. "Oh, if they're only ten cents I think I'd like one," woman quickly.
Lowboy: A Novel by John Wray
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