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Lean on PeteWilly 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 A24, 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

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 A24, 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.



Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 04/13/2010
ISBN: 9780061456534
Pages: 277
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.80d
Award: Oregon Book Awards - Winner
Award: Oregon Book Awards - Winner

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 02/08/2010 pg. 28
Booklist 04/15/2010 pg. 27
Booklist Editors Choice/Adult 01/01/2011 pg. 8
Booklist Ed Choice Adu Bk YA's 01/01/2011 pg. 10
BookPage 04/01/2010
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