Lean on Pete (P.S.) - Softcover

Vlautin, Willy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061456535 ISBN 13: 9780061456534

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2010

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date :2010-04-13 Pages: 304 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins US Fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson wants a home. food on the table. and a high school he can attend for more than part of a year . But as the son of a single father working in warehouses across the Pacific Northwest. Charleys been pretty much on his own. When tragic events leave him homeless weeks after their move to Portland. Oregon. Charley seeks refuge in the tack room of a run -down horse track. Charleys only comforts are his friendship with a failing racehorse named Lean on Pete and a photograph of his only known relative. In an increasingly desperate circumstance. Charley will head east. hoping to find his aunt who had once lived a thousand miles away in Wyoming-but the journey to find her will be a perilous one. In Vlautins third novel. Lean on Pete. he reveals the lives and choice...

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Review:

"Reading Willy Vlautin is like jumping into a clear, cold lake in the middle of summer. His prose is beautifully spare and clean, but underneath the surface lies an incredible depth, with all kinds of hidden stories and emotions resting in the shadows."--Hannah Tinti

"Willy Vlautin, plumbs the depths of despair but finally rewards you with redemption."--Sunday Mercury

"For anyone with a sentimental attachment to beasts of an equine nature, a river of tears awaits."--The List, UK

"Lean on Pete reminds me of the best parts of Gus Van Sant's beautiful film My Own Private Idaho. Willy's voice is pure and his stories universal. He never loses hope or heart and I believe every word he's written."--Barry Gifford

"Spare and unadorned, but nevertheless poetic...full of boundless compassion for the dispossessed and rootless."--Uncut Magazine (FIVE STARS)

"The comparisons with Steinbeck and Carver are richly deserved, yet Vlautin is a truly original voice...powerful, heartbreaking stuff. Just three novels in and Vlautin is already one of the best writers in America."--Mark Billingham

"Among my favourite novels of the year have been Willy Vlautin's Lean on Pete which is possibly his bleakest yet."--New Statesman, "Books of the Year"

"Willy Vlautin's novels are clean as a bone, companionable, and profound. He is a master at paring loneliness and longing from his characters, issuing them through downturns, trials and transience without starving their humanity, and always sustaining them, and the reader, with ordinary hope."--Sarah Hall

"Lean on Pete confirms his status as one of the most emotionally charged writers in America... Vlautin's characters, memorable however curtailed their cameos might be, become a sketchbook of America...The band has to be a hobby now. Vlautin is a writer."--Sunday Herald, UK

"The writing is spare and straightforward...There is intensity in Vlautin's narration, and also beauty and power...Vlautin's major accomplishment lies in posing a damning question: How could we, as a society, have allowed this to happen?"--Seattle Times

Book Description:

Lean on Pete by Willy Vlautin is an unforgettable story of a friendship and of hope in dark times.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0061456535
• ISBN 13: 9780061456534
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304