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Haunting journey of survival, kinship, and hope.

If you've ever felt like life's cast you adrift, "Lean on Pete" could resonate deeply with you. Willy Vlautin crafts a story of a young boy's quest for stability, which transforms into a heart-wrenching adventure across the American landscape. This tale offers more than just a window into socioeconomic struggles; it delivers a narrative laced with the yearning for connection and the resilience of the human spirit.

  • Oregon Book Award for Fiction (2011)
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Lean on Pete

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ISBN: 9780571235735
Authors: Willy Vlautin
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Date of Publication: 2011-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Young Adult, Contemporary, Literary Fiction
Goodreads rating: 4.03
(rated by 4809 readers)

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Fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson wants a home; food on the table; a high school he can attend for more than part of a year; 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. "Lean on Pete" opens as he and his father arrive in Portland, Oregon and Charley takes a stables job, illegally, at the local race track. Once part of a vibrant racing network, Portland Meadows is now seemingly the last haven for washed up jockeys and knackered horses, but it's there that Charley meets Pete, an old horse who becomes his companion as he's forced to try to make his own way in the world.
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Haunting journey of survival, kinship, and hope.

If you've ever felt like life's cast you adrift, "Lean on Pete" could resonate deeply with you. Willy Vlautin crafts a story of a young boy's quest for stability, which transforms into a heart-wrenching adventure across the American landscape. This tale offers more than just a window into socioeconomic struggles; it delivers a narrative laced with the yearning for connection and the resilience of the human spirit.

  • Oregon Book Award for Fiction (2011)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.