Northline, Vlautin Willy

Автор: Vlautin, Willy
Название: Lean on pete
ISBN: 0571339476 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571339471
Издательство: Faber
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Цена: 7030.00 T
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Описание: Once part of a vibrant racing network, Portland Meadows is now seemingly the last haven for washed up jockeys and knackered horses, but it`s there that Charley meets Pete, an old horse who becomes his companion as he`s forced to try to make his own way in the world.

Автор: Vlautin Willy
Название: Motel Life
ISBN: 0571315593 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571315598
Издательство: Faber
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Цена: 8790.00 T
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Описание: Opening like an early Tom Waits barstool-tale, The Motel Life tells the story of two brothers, Frank and Jerry Lee.

Автор: Vlautin Willy
Название: Don`t Skip Out on Me
ISBN: 0062684477 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062684479
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
Цена: 11140.00 T
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Описание:

A Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award
An ALA Notable Book

From award-winning author Willy Vlautin, comes this moving novel about a young ranch hand who goes on a quest to become a champion boxer to prove his worth.

Horace Hopper is a half-Paiute, half-Irish ranch hand who wants to be somebody. He's spent most of his life on the ranch of his kindly guardians, Mr. and Mrs. Reese, herding sheep alone in the mountains. But while the Reeses treat him like a son, Horace can't shake the shame he feels from being abandoned by his parents. He decides to leave the only loving home he's known to prove his worth by training to become a 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.

Coming down from the mountains of Nevada to the unforgiving desert heat of Tucson, Horace finds a trainer and begins to get fights. His journey to become a champion brings him to boxing rings of Mexico and finally, to the seedy streets of Las Vegas, where Horace learns he can't change who he is or outrun his destiny.

Willy Vlautin writes from America's soul, chronicling the lives of those who are downtrodden and forgotten with profound tenderness. Don't Skip Out on Me is a beautiful, wrenching story about one man's search for identity and belonging that will make you consider those around you differently.

Автор: Vlautin, Willy
Название: Lean on Pete movie tie-in
ISBN: 0062692763 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062692764
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
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Цена: 11140.00 T
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Willy Vlautin's award-winning novel follows the story of a newly orphaned fifteen-year old-boy struggling to make his way to a long lost aunt, who just might give him a home--now a major motion picture starring Chloe Sevigny (American Horror Story), Steve Buscemi (Boardwalk Empire) and Travis Fimmel (Warcraft) and directed by Andrew Haigh (45 Years, Looking).

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 Lean on Pete, Willy Vlautin 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.

"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