Lean on Pete

"[Vlautin] unearths a world Steinbeck would have recognised...where the American underclass still resides. Lean On Pete is an archetypal American novel, Huck Finn for the crystal-meth generation." --Independent ExtraAuthor Willy Vlautin--"a major realist talent"(Seattle Post Intelligencer) who is of...

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Main Author: Vlautin, Willy
Format: Books Print Book
Published: Harper Perennial 20100413
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