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A review by flogigyahoo
Don't Skip Out on Me by Willy Vlautin
5.0
What a beautiful book. The writing is superlative. Willy Vlautin is as far from Regency Romances as one could get. I took a rest from my regency research and spent 2 days reading this unputdownable book which I bought some time ago and--can you believe it--forgot about although I know he's a fantastic writer.
This is about a half Paiute Native American, Horace Hooper of Nevada. He was fostered at the age of 14 when his mother remarried. His father left when he was 3. He comes to live with Mr and Mrs Reese on their sheep ranch in the empty hills of Nevada and learns to love the ranch and his parents who love him deeply. At age 21 he hopes to reinvent himself as a boxer named Hector Hidalgo and begins his new life. Not everything is as he has imagined it. Vlautin's spare sentences bring to life an urban nightmare and the loneliness Horace feels in the city that he doesn't know how to handle. I loved every page of this story and started reading another of Vlautin's novels as soon as I finished this one.
This is about a half Paiute Native American, Horace Hooper of Nevada. He was fostered at the age of 14 when his mother remarried. His father left when he was 3. He comes to live with Mr and Mrs Reese on their sheep ranch in the empty hills of Nevada and learns to love the ranch and his parents who love him deeply. At age 21 he hopes to reinvent himself as a boxer named Hector Hidalgo and begins his new life. Not everything is as he has imagined it. Vlautin's spare sentences bring to life an urban nightmare and the loneliness Horace feels in the city that he doesn't know how to handle. I loved every page of this story and started reading another of Vlautin's novels as soon as I finished this one.