The Motel Life Movie Tie-in Edition
A Novel
Willy Vlautin
240 Pages
On-Sale Date: 05/11/2013
ISBN: 9780062325938
Trim Size: 5.300in x 8.000in x 0.620in
With "echoes of Of Mice and Men"(The Bookseller, UK), The Motel Life explores the frustrations and failed dreams of two Nevada brothers—on the run after a hit-and-run accident—who, forgotten by society, and short on luck and hope, desperately cling to the edge of modern life.
“Vlautin’s coiled, poetically matter-of-fact prose calls to mind S.E.Hinton.” — Publishers Weekly
“If there’s any justice, anywhere, The Motel Life will be widely read and widely admired.” — Booklist
“Both heartbreaking and inspirational…written…with a simple hypnotic tone that seems as if it was grown in the Reno heat.” — Associated Press ASAP
“Slighter than Carver, less puerile than Bukowski, Vlautin…manages to lay claim to the same blearyeyed territory, and…to make it new.” — New York Times Book Review, EDITOR’S CHOICE
“A natural for the bigscreen and in fact Babel and 21 Grams writer Guillermo Arriaga has bought the film rights…” — Salt Lake City Tribune
“The furthest Vlautin’s men can move is in circles, shackled to their dysfunctions and their meager paychecks…” — San Francisco Weekly
“I’m floored…This book feel so damn real, so powerful, so much like life, even if it’s not yours.” — Jonathan Zwickel, The Stranger
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