
Don't Skip Out on Me
by Willy Vlautin
Title:
Don't Skip Out on Me
Author:
Willy Vlautin
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
304 pages
Publisher:
Faber and Faber Ltd
ISBN-13:
9780571301652
EAN:
9780571301652
Classifications:
Modern and Contemporary (Post c 1945)
Weight (g):
364
Dimensions (mm):
129 x 197 x 19
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
FINALIST FOR THE 2019 PEN/FAULKNER AWARDMeet 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.


















