Don't Skip Out on Me

FINALIST FOR THE 2019 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD Meet Horace Hopper, a twenty-one-year-old farm hand in Tonopah, Nevada, who works for Mr Reece and his wife, the nearest thing he''s had to family in years. But Horace, half-white half-Paiute Indian, dreams of bigger things. Leaving behind the farm and its fragile stability, he heads South to re-invent himself as the Mexican boxer Hector Hidalgo. Slowly, painfully, the possibility emerges that his dreams might not just be the delusions of a lost soul. but at what cost, and what of those he''s left behind? Exploring the fringes of contemporary America, Don''t Skip Out on Me is an extraordinary work of compassion - a novel about the need for human connection and understanding - and essential reading, now more than ever.

Product details

• Authors: Willy Vlautin, Vlautin Willy
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9780571301652
• ISBN: 978-0-571-30165-2
• No. of pages: 294
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); Nevada, Mexico, FICTION / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Boxing, Relating to Native American people, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary