Willy Vlautin of the band Richmond Fontaine is carving out a nice side career as a novelist and the latest (his 3rd) is Lean On Pete. The book was released in the UK in Feburary and gets it US release this week…

Told from the perspective of fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson, Lean on Pete (2010) is the story of a boy left to fend for himself by his wayward single father. Charley wanders to Portland Meadows racetrack one day and finds work with a surly, washed up horse trainer. He befriends an aging quarter horse named Lean on Pete, and before long, Charley and Pete find themselves alone in an unforgiving landscape scattered with a vivid cast of characters, desperate situations, and glimmers of hope

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