Don’t Skip Out on Me

AUTEUR(S): Vlautin, Willy.

TAAL: Engels.
UITGEVER: Veltman Distributie Import Books (Faber and Faber).
JAAR: 2019.
PAGINA’S: 304.
DRUK: Eerste editie.
FORMAAT: 198 x 129 x 24 mm.
GEWICHT: 244 gram.
STAAT: Nieuw (New).
UITVOERING: Paperback / zachte kaft / gelijmd.
ISBN/EAN: 9780571301652.

BESCHRIJVING

First novel in four years from the much-loved Willy Vlautin, of the bands Richmond Fontaine and The Delines. The paperback edition follows the cinema release of his IMPAC Prize shortlisted novel Lean on Pete.

Meet Horace Hopper, a twenty-one-year-old farm hand in Tonopah, Nevada, who works for Mr Reece and his wife, the nearest thing hes 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 hes left behind?

Exploring the fringes of contemporary America, Dont 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.