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.
Willy Vlautin is the prize-winning author of four acclaimed novels,
The Motel Life,
Northline,
Lean on Pete, which was shortlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and
The Free. He is also the frontman of the band Richmond Fontaine, whose many albums include Post to Wire, and more recently founded The Delines. Andrew Haigh's film of
Lean on Pete will be released in the UK in May 2018.