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The Left and The Lucky
The moving, large-hearted story of a young boy in danger of slipping through society's cracks and the unlikely father figure who takes him under his wing.
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TweedehandsEen intense roman die zich afspeelt in het desolate Nevada en het gewelddadige Mexico Is het altijd goed om jeugddromen na te jagen? Horace Hopper is een gevoelige jongen die op de Little Reese Ranch woont, kilometers van de bewoonde wereld. Als tiener werd hij in huis genomen door Mr en Mrs Reese, die nu in de zeventig zijn. De gezondheid van Mr Reese gaat steeds verder achteruit en zijn wens is dat Horace de ranch overneemt. Maar Horace verlangt ernaar professioneel bokser te worden en weet dat hij de ranch moet verlaten om zijn droom waar te maken. We volgen Horace op een avontuurlijke reis door de ruige bergen van Nevada tot in de brute wereld van het Mexicaanse bokscircuit. Daar doet zijn naïviteit hem in moeilijkheden belanden – hij trekt louche figuren aan die gretig misbruik maken van zijn verlangens. Gaandeweg moet Horace leren zijn gevechten met moed en kracht te doorstaan – en niet alleen in de boksring. De pers over Vrij ‘Willy Vlautin is een meester in het beschrijven van de Amerikaanse Midwest. Hij greep me flink bij mijn kladden: zo kun je dus ook schrijven.’ De Groene Amsterdammer 'Willy Vlautin probeert niet, Willy Vlautin glorieert. In eenvoudige taal, maar ook met meanderende zinnen, beschrijft Vlautin kleine momenten van ietsje meer menselijkheid.’ Vrij Nederland ‘Vlautin slaagt erin, als een moderne John Steinbeck, om de hoop die de mensen koesteren onder woorden te brengen.’ VPRO Boeken ‘Een van de interessantste Amerikaanse auteurs van dit moment.’ Tubantia ‘Het prachtige van Vrij zit ’m in Vlautins meedogenloze, krachtige manier van schrijven. De personages zijn van een wonderbaarlijk realisme.’ The Times
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Lean on Pete
Fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson wants a home and some structure to his life. But as the son of a single father working at warehouses across the Pacific Northwest, he's been pretty much on his own for some time. This book opens as he and his father arrive in Portland, Oregon and Charley takes a stables job, illegally, at the local race track.
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The Horse
Winner of the Joyce Carol Oates Prize Finalist for the 2025 Oregon Book Award “Willy Vlautin writes about people overlooked by society and overlooked by literature. In The Horse, he tells the story of a tenderhearted man who has a steady talent and a crushing addiction. It is both a work of extraordinary compassion and a really great novel." — Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of Tom Lake “A moving tale of suffering and redemption, The Horse portrays the immense gravity of what it takes to be human in tough times, and the elusive grace that might just be grasped from music, animals, and memory.” — Geraldine Brooks, New York Times bestselling author of Horse Award-winning author Willy Vlautin explores loneliness, art, regret, and hard-won empathy in this poignant novel—his most personal to date—that captures the life of a journeyman musician unable to escape the tragedies of his past. Al Ward lives on an isolated mining claim in the high desert of central Nevada fifty miles from the nearest town. A grizzled man in his sixties, he survives on canned soup, instant coffee, and memories of his ex-wife, friends and family he’s lost, and his life as a touring musician. Hampered by insomnia, bouts of anxiety, and a chronic lethargy that keeps him from moving back to town, Al finds himself teetering on the edge of madness and running out of reasons to go on—until a horse arrives on his doorstep: nameless, blind, and utterly helpless. Al hopes the horse will vanish as mysteriously as he appeared. Yet the animal remains, leaving him in a conundrum. Is the animal real, or a phantom conjured from imagination? As Al contemplates the horse’s existence—and what, if anything, he can do—his thoughts are interspersed with memories, from the moment his mother’s part-time boyfriend gifts him a 1959 butterscotch blonde Telecaster, to the day his travels begin. He joins various bands—all who perform his songs once they discover his talent–playing casinos, truck stops, clubs, and bars. He falls in love, and finds pockets of companionship and minor success along the way. Never close to stardom or financial success, he continues as a journeyman for decades until alcoholism and a heartbreaking tragedy lead him to the solitude of the barren Nevada desert. A poignant meditation on addiction, heartbreak, and the reality of life on the road in smalltime bands, The Horse is a beautiful, haunting tale from an author working at the height of his powers.
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The Horse
For fans of A Star is Born and Crazy Heart, Willy Vlautin's most personal novel yet - a poetic and deeply moving story about what it really takes to be a musician.
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This Side of the Divide: New Lore of the American West
"In this collection legends, myths, tales, omens, folk horror, and science fiction explore the fantastical, the apocalyptic, the bizarre, the unknown, and the apocryphal origins and conclusions of life on the occidental side of the Continental Divide. In this collection, after the 'what is' comes the 'what will be', as acclaimed authors and emerging voices weave tales that push the boundaries of imagination"--
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The Night Always Comes
Willy Vlautin is the author of five novels, including The Motel Life; Lean on Pete, which was shortlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and made into an acclaimed film by Andrew Haigh; and Don't Skip Out on Me, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Vlautin lives outside of Portland, Oregon, and is the founding member of the bands Richmond Fontaine and The Delines.
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The Night Always Comes
?Willy Vlautin is not known for happy endings, but there's something here that defies the downward pull. In the end, Lynette is pure life force: fierce and canny and blazing through a city that no longer has space for her, and it's all Portland's loss.??Portland Monthly Magazine Award-winning author Willy Vlautin explores the impact of trickle-down greed and opportunism of gentrification on ordinary lives in this scorching novel that captures the plight of a young woman pushed to the edge as she fights to secure a stable future for herself and her family. Barely thirty, Lynette is exhausted. Saddled with bad credit and juggling multiple jobs, some illegally, she's been diligently working to buy the house she lives in with her mother and developmentally disabled brother Kenny. Portland's housing prices have nearly quadrupled in fifteen years, and the owner is giving them a good deal. Lynette knows it's their last best chance to own their own home?and obtain the security they've never had. While she has enough for the down payment, she needs her mother to cover the rest of the asking price. But a week before they're set to sign the loan papers, her mother gets cold feet and reneges on her promise, pushing Lynette to her limits to find the money they need. Set over two days and two nights, The Night Always Comes follows Lynette's frantic search?an odyssey of hope and anguish that will bring her face to face with greedy rich men and ambitious hustlers, those benefiting and those left behind by a city in the throes of a transformative boom. As her desperation builds and her pleas for help go unanswered, Lynette makes a dangerous choice that sets her on a precarious, frenzied spiral. In trying to save her family's future, she is plunged into the darkness of her past, and forced to confront the reality of her life. A heart wrenching portrait of a woman hungry for security and a home in a rapidly changing city, The Night Always Comes raises the difficult questions we are often too afraid to ask ourselves: What is the price of gentrification, and how far are we really prepared to go to achieve the American Dream? Is the American dream even attainable for those living at the edges? Or for too many of us, is it only a hollow promise?
€ 17,00 -
Don't Skip Out on Me
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.
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Een intense roman die zich afspeelt in het desolate Nevada en het gewelddadige Mexico Is het altijd goed om jeugddromen na te jagen? Horace Hopper is een gevoelige jongen die op de Little Reese Ranch woont, kilometers van de bewoonde wereld. Als tiener werd hij in huis genomen door Mr en Mrs Reese, die nu in de zeventig zijn. De gezondheid van Mr Reese gaat steeds verder achteruit en zijn wens is dat Horace de ranch overneemt. Maar Horace verlangt ernaar professioneel bokser te worden en weet dat hij de ranch moet verlaten om zijn droom waar te maken. We volgen Horace op een avontuurlijke reis door de ruige bergen van Nevada tot in de brute wereld van het Mexicaanse bokscircuit. Daar doet zijn naïviteit hem in moeilijkheden belanden – hij trekt louche figuren aan die gretig misbruik maken van zijn verlangens. Gaandeweg moet Horace leren zijn gevechten met moed en kracht te doorstaan – en niet alleen in de boksring. De pers over Vrij ‘Willy Vlautin is een meester in het beschrijven van de Amerikaanse Midwest. Hij greep me flink bij mijn kladden: zo kun je dus ook schrijven.’ De Groene Amsterdammer 'Willy Vlautin probeert niet, Willy Vlautin glorieert. In eenvoudige taal, maar ook met meanderende zinnen, beschrijft Vlautin kleine momenten van ietsje meer menselijkheid.’ Vrij Nederland ‘Vlautin slaagt erin, als een moderne John Steinbeck, om de hoop die de mensen koesteren onder woorden te brengen.’ VPRO Boeken ‘Een van de interessantste Amerikaanse auteurs van dit moment.’ Tubantia ‘Het prachtige van Vrij zit ’m in Vlautins meedogenloze, krachtige manier van schrijven. De personages zijn van een wonderbaarlijk realisme.’ The Times
€ 15,00 -
The Motel Life
Opening like an early Tom Waits barstool-tale, The Motel Life tells the story of two brothers, Frank and Jerry Lee. Taking to the road in an attempt to escape the hit and run accident caused by Jerry Lee, the novel goes back to tell the story of their unhappy lives. With intense feeling and compassion, Vlautin explores the frustrations and failed dreams of the two brothers - one a natural storyteller, the other an artist - and renders perfectly the sense of entrapment they feel. Will the kid''s death shock them out of their torpor or send them ever deeper into trouble? Can Annie James, a girl from their past, offer them any sort of redemption, however slim?Interspersed with drawings that come to form an integral part of the narrative, The Motel Life is a poetic, moving, beautifully naïve and tragic fictional debut. Alongside such seminal works as Annie Proulx''s Postcards, Raymond Carver''s What we talk about when we talk about love and Denis Johnson''s Jesus''s Son, it should come to be seen as a classic of downbeat American prose.
€ 13,00 -
The Free
Severely wounded in the Iraq war, Leroy has lived a half-life in a group home for eight years. Unable to bear it any longer, he commits a desperate act which helps him to disappear to another place. Freddie is the night porter at the home, who works two jobs yet can''t make ends meet. Buried in debt from his younger daughter''s medical bills, he''s forced to consider a criminal proposition. Pauline is the nurse who tends Leroy, who lives her life in an uncomplicated way, emotionally removed, until she meets a young runaway. An extraordinary portrait of contemporary America, and a testament to the resilience of the human heart, The Free is Willy Vlautin''s most moving and affecting novel to date.
€ 13,00