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Lean on Pete movie tie-in: A Novel

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Willy Vlautin
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Release Date
February 20, 2018
Duration
7 hours 27 minutes
Summary
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, Steve Buscemi, Chloë Sevigny, and directed by Andrew Haigh (45 Years, Looking).

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.

“Lean on Pete riveted me. Reading it, I was heartbroken and moved; enthralled and convinced. This is serious American literature.”
   — Cheryl Strayed, Oregonian
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Finished Lean on Pete in just a day and a half and then watched the movie. What a find with this author! Shades of Steinbeck and Bukowski (without the alcohol) but with the same totally raw emotion. Vlautin writes what’s in your heart and soul even if you don’t know that part of yourself as yet. You will.

Lean on Pete movie tie-in: A Novel

Lean on Pete movie tie-in: A Novel

Author: Willy Vlautin
Read by: Willy Vlautin
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