Don't Skip Out on Me

by Willy Vlautin
 
Dave says “Vlautin is a champion of the abandoned, the downtrodden, the sufferers. This story of Horace, a farm hand who tries to reinvent himself as a boxer in the hope on improving his life is a perfect example of Vlautins ability to make you cry at the futility and hardness of life but at the same time, somehow, lift your soul with the idea that hope andlove still exist no matter what.”
 
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 of bigger things. Leaving behind the farm and 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, and what of those he's left behind?
 
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