John Corey Whaley. S&S/Atheneum, $16.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-4424-1333-7
In this darkly humorous debut, Whaley weaves two stories into a taut and well-constructed thriller. Acerbic 17-year-old aspiring writer Cullen Witter narrates the first, bemoaning the tedium of smalltown life ("Living in Lily, Arkansas, is sometimes
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John Corey Whaley. S&S/Atheneum, $17.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-4424-5872-7
Like baseball great Ted Williams, Travis Coates has his head surgically removed and cryogenically frozen after he dies (of leukemia at age 16). Unlike Williams, Travis is a fictional character, and five years after his death, technological advances...
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John Corey Whaley. Dial, $17.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-525-42818-3
Solomon Reed, 16, suffers from acute anxiety and agoraphobia. He hasn’t left his house since a panic attack in seventh grade, during which he stripped to his underwear seeking calm in the waters of a fountain outside his school. Former classmate...
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John Corey Whaley, read by Robbie Daymon and Julia Whelan. Listening Library, unabridged, 5 CDs, 6.5 hrs., $40 ISBN 978-0-7352-8579-8
Solomon Reed, 16, suffers from acute anxiety and agoraphobia and hasn’t left his house since a panic attack in seventh grade. His former classmate Lisa—an ambitious straight-A student, in need of a subject for a scholarship essay about mental...
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John Corey Whaley, read by Kirby Heybourne. S&S Audio, Unabridged, seven CDs, 8.5 hrs., $29.99 ISBN 978-1-4423-6985-6
In Whaley’s novel , Travis Coates has his head surgically removed and cryogenically frozen after he dies of leukemia at age 16. Five years after his death, technological advances allow doctors to attach his head to a donor body that is taller and...
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