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Lean on Pete tells the story of fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson, a kid who yearns for stability as his single-parent father moves them for job to job across the Pacific Northwest. Desperation brings Charley to run-down horse track where he gets work of his own as a groom to a bitter, ageing trainer. It's there that he finds kinship with the horse Lean on Pete, and ultimately sets off on a journey to try and save them both. In prose marked by a haunting kindness, Willy Vlautin paints an extraordinary picture of life on the margins of contemporary American society.
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Lean on Pete, Willy Vlautin
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- 2011
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- Title
- Lean on Pete
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Willy Vlautin
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber, Limited
- Released
- 2011
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 288
- ISBN10
- 0571235735
- ISBN13
- 9780571235735
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Nature, Animals, Contemporary Fiction, Friendship, USA, American Literature, Death, Coming Of Age, Horses, America, Teens, Search, Loneliness, Father, Boys
- Original title
- Lean on Pete
- Rating
- 3.95 out of 5
- Description
- Lean on Pete tells the story of fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson, a kid who yearns for stability as his single-parent father moves them for job to job across the Pacific Northwest. Desperation brings Charley to run-down horse track where he gets work of his own as a groom to a bitter, ageing trainer. It's there that he finds kinship with the horse Lean on Pete, and ultimately sets off on a journey to try and save them both. In prose marked by a haunting kindness, Willy Vlautin paints an extraordinary picture of life on the margins of contemporary American society.