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Don't Skip Out on Me

(2018)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
2019 ALA Notable Books for Adults (nominee)
2019 PEN/Faulkner Award (nominee)

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 half-Paiute Indian, dreams of bigger things. Leaving behind the farm and its fragile stability, he heads South to re-invent himself as the Mexican boxer Hector Hidalgo. Slowly, painfully, the possibility emerges that his dreams might not just be the delusions of a lost soul. but at what cost, and what of those he's left behind?

Exploring the fringes of contemporary America, Don't Skip Out on Me is an extraordinary work of compassion - a novel about the need for human connection and understanding - and essential reading, now more than ever.


Genre: Literary Fiction

Praise for this book

"I absolutely loved Don’t Skip Out On Me, just as I have loved all of Vlautin’s previous novels. Vlautin’s gritty, scrappy world bursts with a tenderness that will hook you in from the first line to the last. This is a writer who should never be ignored." - Jessica Anya Blau

"Magnificent…. Willy Vlautin is now one of America’s great writers." - Roddy Doyle

"The world needs more Willy Vlautin, and Dont’ Skip Out on Me is his best novel yet." - Jonathan Evison

"No one anywhere writes as beautifully about people whose stories stay close to the dirt. Willy Vlautin is a secular—and thus real and profoundly useful—saint." - Lidia Yuknavitch


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