' Magnificent Vlautin is now one of America's great writers' RODDY DOYLE' Vlautin is one of the bravest novelists writing' URSULA K LE GUINFirst printing
Includes:: exclusive free CD soundtrack by Richmond Fontaine Meet Horace Hopper a twenty-one-year-old farm hand in Tonopah Nevada who works for Mr Reece & 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 & 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 & 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 & understanding
- & essential reading now more than ever