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Willy Vlautin
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…
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"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…
Set over two days and nights, The Night Always Comes holds up a mirror to a society which leaves too many people only a step away from ruin.
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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…
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Fleeing Las Vegas and her abusive boyfriend, Allison Johnson moves to Reno, intent on making a new life for herself. But, as life crawls on and she finds work, small…
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"Willy Vlautin's characters blaze with honesty, fighting for their slim chance at the American dream."--Rene Denfeld, author of The Butterfly Girl and The Child Finder
Award-winning author Willy Vlautin explores…
Sixty-five-year-old Al Ward is living on old mining land in Nevada. One morning, a horse arrives outside his home, seemingly unable to feed itself or stay safe from coyote attacks…
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Opening like an early Tom Waits barstool-tale, The Motel Life tells the story of two brothers, Frank and Jerry Lee.
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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…
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…
First novel in four years from the much-loved Willy Vlautin, of the bands Richmond Fontaine and The Delines.
Left homeless by the death of his father, fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson sets off with a racehorse, Lean on Pete, on a perilous treck from Portland, Oregon to Wyoming to find…
Determined to prove his worth, a half-Paiute, half-Irish ranch hand who was abandoned by his parents leaves his aging guardians to become a champion boxer before matches organized in Mexico…
The hugely moving novel from Willy Vlautin, reissued with a new cover.
A beautiful and bittersweet new novel from the author of Lean on Pete and The Motel Life.
Film tie-in edition of Willy Vlautin’s unforgettable story of a friendship and hope in dark times.
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Set over two days and two nights, the story of one woman’s resilience in the face of opportunism, greed and ever-narrowing choices.
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…
Fleeing Las Vegas and her abusive boyfriend, Allison Johnson moves to Reno, but finds herself haunted by the mistakes of her past, and lacking any self-belief. Her only comfort seems…
In this powerful debut novel, brothers Frank and Jerry Lee are on the run after a hit-and-run accident. Interweaving past and present, Vlautin unfolds the story of their unhappy lives–lives…
That Leroy Kervin was gone. Willy Vlautin’s stunning fourth novel opens with Leroy, a young, wounded, Iraq veteran, waking to a rare moment of clarity, his senses flooded with the…
With "echoes of Of Mice and Men"(The Bookseller, UK), The Motel Life explores the frustrations and failed dreams of two Nevada brothers--on the run after a hit-and-run accident--who, forgotten by…
Full of memorable characters and imbued with a beautiful sense of yearning, Northline is the latest novel from Vlautin, whose work has been lauded by the New York Times Book…
Featuring an interview with Willy Vlautin himself, this edited collection aims to develop the first serious, critical consideration of his important novels and songs by exploring relations between region, music…
Barely thirty, Lynette is exhausted juggling multiple jobs but still wants to provide a stable home for her family. As her desperation builds, Lynette makes a dangerous choice that sets…
From the author of The Motel Life comes another hugely moving slice of Americana.
Dan Fante
Soaked in booze and sadness, psychotic eruptions and hilarity. -Willy Vlautin
In the freewheeling, debaucherous tradition of Charles Bukowski, a taxi driver’s stories from the streets of lowlife Los Angeles-with…