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SIGNED Don't Skip Out on Me by Willy Vlautin First Edition 2018
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- Condition
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- Seller Notes
- “SIGNED Don't Skip Out on Me by Willy Vlautin First Edition 2018”
- Type
- Novel
- EAN
- 9780062684455
- ISBN
- 0062684450
- Signed
- Yes
- Special Attributes
- 1st Edition, Dust Jacket
- Book Series
- None
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Features
- Dust Jacket, 1st Edition
- Inscribed
- No
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Book Title
- Don't Skip Out on Me : a Novel
- Item Length
- 8.2in
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Small Town & Rural, General, Literary, Sports
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 14.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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A FINALIST FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD From Willy Vlautin, award-winning author of Lean on Pete and The Motel Life, comes a powerful exploration of identity and loneliness pulled from deep within America's soul. Don't Skip Out On Me is going to make your heart crumple into a little wad of paper and then open it back up into a perfect paper airplane sailing the skies from the hand of a boy. How does a bi-cultural man find a self when he's been abandoned by his parents? He invents it, that's how, with his hands, his fists, and that fist-shaped muscle, a heart. No one anywhere writes as beautifully about people whose stories stay close to the dirt. Willy Vlautin is a secular--and thus real and profoundly useful--saint." --Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Book of Joan Horace Hopper has spent most of his life on a Nevada sheep ranch, but dreams of something bigger. Mr. and Mrs. Reese, the aging ranchers, took him in and treated him like a son, intending to leave the ranch in his hands. But Horace, ashamed not only of his half-Paiute, half-Irish heritage, but also of the fact his parents did not want him, feels as if he doesn't belong on the ranch, or anywhere. Knowing he needs to make a name for himself, he decides to leave the only loving home he's known to prove his worth as a championship boxer. Mr. Reese is holding on to a way of life that is no longer sustainable. He's a seventy-two-year-old rancher with a bad back. He's not sure how he'll keep things going without Horace but he knows the boy must find his own way. To become a champion Horace must change not just the way he eats, trains, and thinks, but who he is. Reinventing himself as Hector Hildago, a scrappy Mexican boxer, he heads to Tucson and begins training and entering fights. His journey brings him to boxing rings across the Southwest and Mexico and finally, to the streets of Las Vegas, where Horace learns he can't change who he is or outrun his destiny. A beautiful, wrenching portrait of a downtrodden man, Don't Skip Out on Me narrates the struggle to find one's place in a vast and lonely world with profound tenderness, and will make you consider those around you--and yourself--differently.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0062684450
ISBN-13
9780062684455
eBay Product ID (ePID)
237931909
Product Key Features
Book Title
Don't Skip Out on Me : a Novel
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Small Town & Rural, General, Literary, Sports
Publication Year
2018
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
14.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Reviews
PRAISE FOR WILLY VLAUTIN "Vlautin is a writer with incredible heart, and The Free is his best achievement yet, a profound look at characters living on the margins, honest people who have been hit hard by the dark realities of a difficult world.", PRAISE FOR WILLY VLAUTIN "With straightforward economy, he draws us into [the characters'] seemingly intractable problems, revealing their persistence and decency... Vlautin's unadorned narrative is affecting; these unassuming characters bore into us in surprising ways.", (The book is) written in the sort of scorched, bare-bones prose, stripped of metaphors and similes, that has won him fans such as Roddy Doyle, Donna Tartt and Colm Tóibín., PRAISE FOR WILLY VLAUTIN "Lean on Pete riveted me. Reading it, I was heartbroken and moved; enthralled and convinced. This is serious American literature.", PRAISE FOR WILLY VLAUTIN "Willy's novel Lean on Pete was one of my favorite reads of the last decade. I might love The Free even more. 'Cinematic minimalism' in the grand tradition of Fat City, Ironweed, and the works of the great Raymond Carver., No one anywhere writes as beautifully about people whose stories stay close to the dirt. Willy Vlautin is a secular--and thus real and profoundly useful--saint., PRAISE FOR WILLY VLAUTIN "I love Willy Vlautin's novels. Downbeat and plaintive as they are, the tenderness holds on like the everlasting arms.... Willy's voice is pure and his stories universal. He never loses hope or heart and I believe every word he's written.", With straightforward economy, he draws us into [the characters'] seemingly intractable problems, revealing their persistence and decency... Vlautin's unadorned narrative is affecting; these unassuming characters bore into us in surprising ways., PRAISE FOR WILLY VLAUTIN "Willy Vlautin is one of the bravest novelists writing... An unsentimental Steinbeck, a heartbroken Haruf, Willy Vlautin tells us who really lives now in our America, our city in ruins.", PRAISE FOR WILLY VLAUTIN "Northline shines with naked honesty and unsentimental humanity. The character of Allison Johnson, and the wounded-but-still-walking people she encounters on her journey, will stay with me for a long while. Vlautin has written the American novel that I've been hoping to find.", PRAISE FOR WILLY VLAUTIN "A debut road-trip novel that echoes the spare, bleak style of such writers as Denis Johnson and Raymond Carver...[Vlautin] conveys the pain and desolate lives of his characters without a hint of melodrama", PRAISE FOR WILLY VLAUTIN "Vlautin's eye for detail is sharp: every character is distinctly drawn and memorable.... for sheer cinma-vrit detailing of American life right now, Lean on Pete is a good place to start.", PRAISE FOR WILLY VLAUTIN "The straightforward beauty of Vlautin's writing, and the tender care he shows his characters, turns a story of struggle into indispensable reading. I couldn't recommend it more highly.", Vlautin. . . . strips away our defenses with close-to-the bone prose that leaves us utterly exposed to the tragedy of being alive--and every bit as thankful for those moments of aching humanity before the curtain falls., PRAISE FOR WILLY VLAUTIN "Few contemporary western writers tell the truth with the unerring eye of Willy Vlautin, a literary realist whose emotionally charged characters achieve that rarest of goals in fiction--to tell a great story..."
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
813.6
Dewey Edition
23
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