Lean On Pete - Couverture rigide

Vlautin, Willy

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Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1444805258 ISBN 13 : 9781444805253

Editeur : Ulverscroft Ltd, 2011

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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, Charley's 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. Charley's 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 Vlautin's third novel, Lean on Pete, he reveals the lives and choices of American youth like Charley Thompson who were failed by those meant to protect them and who were never allowed the chance to just be a kid.

Revue de presse :

'Comparisons with Steinbeck and Carver are richly deserved, yet Vlautin's is a truly original voice. LEAN ON PETE is powerful, heartbreaking stuff. Just three novels in and he is already one of the best writers in America.' --Mark Billingham

'He is a master at paring loneliness and longing from his characters ... and always sustaining them, and the reader, with hope.' --Sarah Hall

'A superb evocation of adolescence, loss and, ultimately hope, LEAN ON PETE confirms Willy Vlautin as one of the finest American writers of his generation.' --John Connolly

"An archetypal American novel, Huck Finn for the crystal-meth generation...a sad, often brutal, but oddly beautiful portrait of an America that's forgotten only because we choose not to remember its continuing existence." --Independent Extra

'An enthralling work ... this book has qualities of grace and sympathy that make it impossible to put down.' --Sunday Business Post

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