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Lean on Pete

English · Paperback / Softback

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Zusatztext "Among my favourite novels of the year have been Willy Vlautin's Lean on Pete which is possibly his bleakest yet." Informationen zum Autor Willy Vlautin is the author of the novels The Motel Life, Northline, Lean on Pete, The Free, Don’t Skip Out on Me, The Night Always Comes , and The Horse . He is the founding member of the bands Richmond Fontaine and The Delines. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Willy Vlautin’s award-winning novel Lean on Pete!  a moving and compassionate story about a fifteen-year old-boy's unlikely connection to a failing racehorse as he struggles to find a place to call home—now a major motion picture from A24! the studio behind Moonlight and Lady Bird! starring Charlie Plummer! Chloë Sevigny! with Travis Fimmel and Steve Buscemi! and directed by Andrew Haigh ( 45 Years ! Looking ). “ Lean on Pete riveted me. Reading it! I was heartbroken and moved; enthralled and convinced. This is serious American literature.” —Cheryl Strayed! Oregonian 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.   ...

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Authors Willy Vlautin
Publisher Harper Perennial USA
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 13.04.2010
 
EAN 9780061456534
ISBN 978-0-06-145653-4
No. of pages 304
Dimensions 134 mm x 205 mm x 19 mm
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature

FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Women, DRAMA: Women Authors, FICTION: Media Tie-In, FICTION: Westerns, FICTION: Coming of Age, LITERATURE: GENERAL FICTION, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: American / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Women Authors, FICTION: Animals

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