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   Is lean on Pete a true story?

   • “As one boy’s journey, Lean on Pete is as real as blood: as a novel it is remarkable. Willy Vlautin, romantic and realist, has written something special that will make you shudder, weep, rage and wonder at how such things happen and do, and how some individuals such as Charley can suffer them, absorb the grief, and somehow survive.

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   What is lean on Pete?

   • In case you were wondering, Lean on Pete is the name of a horse. Not a special one, just your average American quarter horse — a doomed beast stuck racing for small-stakes bets at second-tier tracks in and around Portland, Oregon.

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   Is lean on Pete a good book?

   • “ Lean On Pete is an archetypal American novel, Huck Finn for the crystal-meth generation. If there’s the occasional touch of sentimentality, it’s hard-earned and welcome. This is a sad, often brutal, but oddly beautiful portrait of an America that’s forgotten only because we choose not to remember its continuing existence.”

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   What is the plot of lean on Pete?

   • The unconventional way the plot unfolds is one of Lean on Pete' s great virtues, so to describe it in too much detail feels wrong -- but it's important to note that child poverty and homelessness are central to the story. These themes are dealt with head-on, sometimes brutally.

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   Jan 1, 2010 · Vlautin's third novel, Lean on Pete, is the story of a 15-year-old boy who works and lives on a rundown race track in Portland, Oregon and befriends a failed race horse named Lean on Pete. The novel won two Oregon Book Awards: the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction and the Peoples Choice Award.

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   May 3, 2018 · A refreshing, unflinchingly honest take on the American road trip novel, Lean on Pete is brilliant in its unsentimental portrayal of early twentieth-century America. The novel follows Charley Thompson, a teenager at a...

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   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.

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   When tragic events leave him homeless weeks after their move to Portland, Oregon, Charley seeks refuge in the tack room of a run-down horse track. Charley's only comforts...

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    Feb 4, 2010 · Lean on Pete. Willy Vlautin. Faber & Faber, Feb 4, 2010 - Fiction - 288 pages. Fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson wants a home; food on the table; a high school he can attend for more than part of...