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John Wray is less interested in Lowboy’s picaresque circuits than in his mental circuits, whose damaged condition is brilliantly, compassionately evoked in the novel…Great tact is required to pull off this kind of thing in fiction, since hallucination can be as boring as someone recounting a very long dream at breakfast, or it can slide too easily, like any horror story, into a bloody and relentless vitality. Wray is never boring, largely because he has an uncanny talent for ventriloquism, and he seems to know, with unerring authority, how to select and make eloquent the details of Lowboy’s illness.

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Wray has a weakness for bagatelle plotting, but he takes a care with words that borders on the obsessive, and his imagery is surgically precise. He’s a slow, meticulous writer, and it shows in the work…Lowboy is told in a series of impressionistic flashes, most not more than a few paragraphs long, and it moves with extremely confident speed to its heart-wrenching conclusion. The book’s occasional tendencies toward predictable Hollywood formulae…are more than offset by the understated brilliance of its narrative.

For a look at Wood’s view of fiction and criticism in general, check out Daniel Green’s review of How Fiction Works, from our August 2008 issue. And in his review of Lark & Termite, from our February 2009 issue Dragonball: Evolution movie full , Sam Sacks tackles the difficulty of rendering a mentally damaged person’s mind in prose.