Willy Vlautin - Böcker

Romanen Hästen av Willy Vlautin i översättning av Andreas Vesterlund. Vlautins nya handlar om sextiosjuårige Al som dragit sig tillbaka och bor i ett gammalt skjul i ödemarken i Nevada med fem mil till närmaste granne. Han har inte el, inte WC, in...

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There's a horse', he whispered. 'An old horse that's standing in front of my house. He's blind and he won't eat and I don't know what to do.'65-year-old Al Ward is several years into an isolated stint living on old mining land in Nevada left to hi...

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Romanen Motellivet handlar om två bröder - Frank och Jerry Lee Flannigan - som försöker göra det bästa av en till synes hopplös situation på samhällets absoluta botten. Det verkar till att börja med som om allting går dem emot, men hoppet är dess ...

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"Willy Vlautin är en av de starkaste rösterna i nutida amerikansk litteratur, kanske den starkaste. Hans prosa är ren, klar, enkel, brutal, vacker, fylld av empati med de kantstötta karaktärer som försöker bygga sina liv på sand under en svar...

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Opening like an early Tom Waits barstool-tale, The Motel Life tells the story of two brothers, Frank and Jerry Lee. Taking to the road in an attempt to escape the hit and run accident caused by Jerry Lee, the novel goes back to tell the story of t...

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"Mörkret som faller är verkligen en lysande roman!" Rasmus Landström, Arbetarbladet. "Inte förvånande att flera av hans romaner både prisats och filmatiserats." David Björklund, BTJ. "Årets bok har redan kommit!" Litt...

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Vlautins nya roman Lean on Pete - redan trefaldigt prisbelönad - har fått recensenter världen över att jubla "Kraftfullt, hjärtslitande... Med denna sin tredje roman visar Vlautin att han redan är en av USAs främsta författare." / Mark B...

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'Shot through with all the bruised romance and regret of a country-blues classic . . . Vlautin's characters are a vast chorus of broken hearts, reaching for grace.' COLIN WALSH 'Tremendously compelling . . . as succinct and wre...

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**THE HORSE - THE NEW NOVEL FROM WILLY VLAUTIN - IS AVAILABLE TO PREORDER NOW** SOON TO BE A NETFLIX FILM STARRING VANESSA KIRBY 'Pacey and visceral.' Sunday Times 'Imbued with the noirish urgency of a page-turning thriller.' I...

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FINALIST FOR THE 2019 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD 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, dr...

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Severely wounded in the Iraq war, Leroy has lived a half-life in a group home for eight years. Unable to bear it any longer, he commits a desperate act which helps him to disappear to another place. Freddie is the night porter at the home, who wor...

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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&a...

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"Willy Vlautin's characters blaze with honesty, fighting for their slim chance at the American dream."--Rene Denfeld, author of The Butterfly Girl and The Child Finder Award-winning author Willy Vlautin explores loneliness, art, regret, ...

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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&a...

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"Willy Vlautin is not known for happy endings, but there's something here that defies the downward pull. In the end, Lynette is pure life force: fierce and canny and blazing through a city that no longer has space for her, and it's all Portla...

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Om man får tro nationalsången är USA de frias land - the land of the free. Läser man Willy Vlautin får man både en fördjupad bild och anledning att fundera några extra gånger över den så vackert besjungna friheten. Vlautin debuterade 2006 med roma...

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Willy Vlautins nya roman i översättning av Martin Uggla. Får man tro nationalsången är USA de frias land - the land of the free. Läser man Willy Vlautin får man en fördjupad bild och man får anledning att fundera, flera extravarv, över hur det stå...

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Fleeing Las Vegas and her abusive boyfriend, Allison Johnson moves to Reno, but finds herself haunted by the mistakes of her past, and lacking any self-belief. Her only comfort seems to come from the imaginary conversations she has with her hero, ...

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"Willy Vlautin är en av de starkaste rösterna i nutida amerikansk litteratur, kanske den starkaste. Hans prosa är ren, klar, enkel, brutal, vacker, fylld av empati med de kantstötta karaktärer som försöker bygga sina liv på sand under en svart sol...

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In this powerful debut novel, brothers Frank and Jerry Lee are on the run after a hit-and-run accident. Interweaving past and present, Vlautin unfolds the story of their unhappy lives--lives afflicted by drink, bleak economic circumstances, and fa...

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Full of memorable characters and imbued with a beautiful sense of yearning, "Northline" is the latest novel from Vlautin, whose work has been lauded by the "New York Times Book Review" as mournful [and] understated.

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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 hi...

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With "e;echoes of Of Mice and Men"e;(The Bookseller, UK), The Motel Life explores the frustrations and failed dreams of two Nevada brotherson the run after a hit-and-run accidentwho, forgotten by society, and short on luck and hope, desper...

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Fleeing Las Vegas and her abusive boyfriend, Allison Johnson moves to Reno, intent on making a new life for herself. Haunted by the mistakes of her past, and lacking any self-belief, her only comfort seems to come from the imaginary conversations ...

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With "echoes of Of Mice and Men "( The Bookseller , UK), The Motel Life explores the frustrations and failed dreams of two Nevada brothers--on the run after a hit-and-run accident--who, forgotten by society, and short on luck and hope, d...

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Award-winning author of The Motel Life , Northline and Lean on Pete , Willy Vlautin demonstrates his extraordinary talent for confronting issues facing modern America, illuminated through the lives of three memorable characters who are looking for...

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A Paperback OriginalAward-winning author Willy Vlautin demonstrates his extraordinary talent for confronting issues facing modern America, illuminated through the lives of three memorable characters who are looking for a way out of their financial...

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A FINALIST FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD An ALA Notable Book 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. Horace Hopper is a half-Paiute, ...

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A FINALIST FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD 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.Horace Hopper is a half-Paiute, half-Irish ranch hand...

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Now a major motion picture starring Chloë Sevigny (American Horror Story), Steve Buscemi (Boardwalk Empire) and Travis Fimmel (Warcraft), -- Willy Vlautin's award-winning novel Lean on Pete follows the story of a newly orphaned fifteen-year old-bo...

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