Lying Low (William Abrahams Book) - Softcover

Críticas

"A nearly flawless performance--a beautifully constructed, elegantly written book, delicate in its perceptions, powerful in its impact."--Robert Towers, New York Times

"Clever and deftly observant."--Newsweek

"In the California college town of Orris stands a rooming house owned by ballet teacher Theodora Wait, 60, and her brother Anton, a famous nature photographer. In summer residence are only two boarders, Ouida, a sweet-natured Brazilian member of the 'World Messianity' movement, and a quiet, private girl known to the others solely as 'Lynn.' Actually her name is Marybeth Howe, and she's an FBI fugitive, having killed a scientist in a laboratory bombing six years before. Orris is a perfect refuge; Johnson's eye for mendicant/hip/political manifestations makes this a piece of fine California reportage... A chamber novel, basically a quartet for four intelligences... the satisfactions--for the head especially--are substantial."--Kirkus Reviews

Reseña del editor

An aging ex-dancer, her photographer brother, and the two boarders in their California Victorian house, a young political fugitive and a bewildered Brazilian woman, are helpless to contain the disaster that befalls them