Vlautin Willy - Lean On Pete A Novel - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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 A 24, the studio behind Moonlight and Lady Bird starring Charlie Plummer Chlo 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.
Title: Lean On Pete A Novel
Author(s): Vlautin Willy
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780061456534
Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 4/13/2010