by John Wray. Will Heller, aka Lowboy, is a brilliant but troubled 16-year-old paranoid schizophrenic in New York City. Recently escaped from a mental hospital and obsessed with the notion that the world is about to be destroyed by global warming, he boards the subway one morning seeking to save the world in the only way he believes it can be—by having sex with a woman. Wray presents a powerful and vivid portrait of Will's mental state, believably entering into his apocalyptic vision of the world. --Library Journal (Check Catalog)
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Lowboy
by John Wray. Will Heller, aka Lowboy, is a brilliant but troubled 16-year-old paranoid schizophrenic in New York City. Recently escaped from a mental hospital and obsessed with the notion that the world is about to be destroyed by global warming, he boards the subway one morning seeking to save the world in the only way he believes it can be—by having sex with a woman. Wray presents a powerful and vivid portrait of Will's mental state, believably entering into his apocalyptic vision of the world. --Library Journal (Check Catalog)
