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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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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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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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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WINNER OF THE JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE 'Extraordinary.' ANN PATCHETT 'Tremendously compelling.' GUARDIAN 'Bruised and beautiful.' BEN MYERS 'Transcendent.' LA TIMES Willy Vlautin's most personal novel yet - a poetic and deeply moving story about wh...

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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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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, dreams ...

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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.' Irish Times 'A tear-s...

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM A24 An unforgettable story of a friendship and of hope in dark times. 'Catch-your-breath good.' EILEEN BATTERSY, IRISH TIMES 'Powerful, heartbreaking stuff.' M...

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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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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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"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!" Litterära händelser. "Betyg 5 av 5...

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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 wrenching as a well-hon...

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Fleeing Las Vegas and her abusive boyfriend, Allison Johnson moves to Reno, intent on making a new life for herself, but haunted by the mistakes of her past, she finds solace in imaginary conversations with her hero, Paul Newman, and a new life be...

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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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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 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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Willy Vlautin is not known for happy endings, but theres 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 its all Portlands loss...

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'The night it happened I was drunk, almost passed out, and I swear to God a bird came flying through my motel room window . . .'Narrated by Frank Flannigan, The Motel Life tells the story of how he and his brother Jerry Lee take to the r...

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'Vlautin is nothing less than the Dylan of the dislocated.' Independent on SundayAt twenty-two, Allison Johnson is a lost young woman in need of a new start. Down among the lowlifes in Las Vegas, clinging to drink and to Jimmy, the abusi...

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