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Godsend (Paperback)
John Wray
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R433
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The Lost Time Accidents is a bold and epic saga set against the
greatest upheavals of the twentieth century. Haunted by a failed
love affair and the darkest of family secrets, Waldemar 'Waldy'
Tolliver wakes one morning to discover that he has been exiled from
the flow of time. The world continues to turn, and Waldy is
desperate to find his way back. In his ambitious and fiercely
inventive new novel, John Wray takes us from turn-of-the-century
Viennese salons buzzing with rumours about Einstein's radical new
theory to the death camps of the Second World War, from the golden
age of post-war pulp science fiction to a startling discovery in a
modern-day Manhattan apartment packed to the ceiling with artefacts
of contemporary life.
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Lowboy (Paperback)
John Wray
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R418
R351
Discovery Miles 3 510
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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 more 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.
In California her name was Aden Grace Sawyer. In Pakistan she must
choose a different name - Suleyman - and take on a new identity as
a young man. She has travelled a long way to begin her new life,
and she'll travel further to protect her secret. But once she is on
the ground, Aden finds herself in more danger than she could have
dreamed. Faced with violence and loss, she must make intense and
unimaginable choices that will test not only her faith, but her
understanding of who she is. Compelling, unnerving and timely,
Godsend is a subtle masterpiece of empathy: a study of what it
means for a person to give themselves to their faith, and how far
they will go from home to find a place to belong.
Aden Grace Sawyer has travelled a long way to begin her new life,
and she'll travel further to protect her secret. But once she's in
Pakistan, Aden finds herself in more danger than she could have
imagined. Faced with violence and loss, she must make choices that
will test not only her faith, but her understanding of who she is.
Compelling, unnerving and timely, Godsend is a study of what it
means for a person to give themselves to their faith, and how far
they will go to find a place to belong.
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.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
PublishingA AcentsAcentsa A-Acentsa Acentss Legacy Reprint Series.
Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks,
notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this
work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of
our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's
literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of
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This extraordinary debut novel from Whiting Writers’ Award winner John Wray is a poetic portrait of a life redeemed at one of the darkest moments in world history.
Twenty years after deserting the army in the first world war, Oskar Voxlauer returns to the village of his youth. Haunted by his past, he finds an uneasy peace in the mountains–but it is 1938 and Oskar cannot escape from the rising tide of Nazi influence in town. He attempts to retreat to the woods, only to be drawn back by his own conscience and the chilling realization that the woman whose love might finally save him is bound to the local SS commander. Morally complex, brilliantly plotted, and heartbreakingly realized, The Right Hand of Sleep marks the beginning of an important literary career.
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