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John Wray, author of the new and notable “Lowboy,” has not had an easy way as a novelist. He wrote his debut, 2001’s “The Right Hand of Sleep,” in a tent in the basement of a Brooklyn warehouse, where he would by-now-famously listen to rats copulate. For his second book, 2005’s “Canaan’s Tongue,” he did his publicity tour by raft down the Mississippi in a (failed) attempt to get people...
...want to say this up front: I like “Lowboy.” It’s a good book. There was something about the quote I’m about to give you from Carr’s Times piece, though, that when I read it just felt true. He said—and here’s the quote—“It is, in all, a thoroughly modern, calculated public relations enterprise, but its ancient charms are remarkable.” That’s just it: “Lowboy?...
...exposition at key points in his apparent madcap narrative, showing the careful planning and loving consideration of a first-rate writing talent. His prose flies along with the unstoppable force of a subway train, but he can still make me pause and wring my heart out over poor Lowboy...
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