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From award-winning author Willy Vlautin, comes this moving novel about a young ranch hand who goes on a quest to become a champion boxer to prove his worth.
Harper Perennial
February 2018
On Sale: February 13, 2018
304 pages
ISBN: 0062684450
EAN: 9780062684455
Kindle: B071DSP6KH
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Literature and Fiction Drama
Horace Hopper is a half-Paiute, half-Irish ranch hand who
wants to be somebody. He’s spent most of his life on the
ranch of his kindly guardians, Mr. and Mrs. Reese,
herding sheep alone in the mountains. But while the
Reeses treat him like a son, Horace can’t shake the shame
he feels from being abandoned by his parents. He decides
to leave the only loving home he’s known to prove his
worth by training to become a boxer. Mr. Reese is holding on to a way of life that is no
longer sustainable. He’s a seventy-two-year-old rancher
with a bad back. He’s not sure how he’ll keep things
going without Horace but he knows the boy must find his
own way. Coming down from the mountains of Nevada to the
unforgiving desert heat of Tucson, Horace finds a trainer
and begins to get fights. His journey to become a
champion brings him to boxing rings of Mexico and
finally, to the seedy streets of Las Vegas, where Horace
learns he can’t change who he is or outrun his destiny. Willy Vlautin writes from America’s soul, chronicling the
lives of those who are downtrodden and forgotten with
profound tenderness. Don’t Skip Out on Me is a beautiful,
wrenching story about one man’s search for identity and
belonging that will make you consider those around you
differently.
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