Willy Vlautin: LEAN ON PETE W3 [2011] paperback CCON Their days interweave and their

Their days interweave and their lives converge as the party reaches its glittering climax

You will meet a husband who values a televised Hibs v Hearts game more than his wife's life and see two guys fighting over a beautiful girl agree - after a few pills and pints of lager - that their friendship is actually more important

and winning characters

whilst also detailing how stigmatization and scapegoating are resisted through a variety of aesthetic and political strategies

plot twists and turns

Willy Vlautin: LEAN ON PETE W3 [2011] paperback CCON Their days interweave and theirFifteen 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's been pretty much on his own for some time. Lean on Pete opens as he and his father arrive in Portland, Oregon and Charley takes a stables job, illegally, at the local race track. Once part of a vibrant