{"product_id":"9780571301652","title":"Don't Skip Out on Me","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Vlautin, Willy \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 17\/01\/2019,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 304 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780571301652,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFINALIST FOR THE 2019 PEN\/FAULKNER AWARDMeet 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut 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?Exploring the fringes of contemporary America, Don't Skip Out on Me is an extraordinary work of compassion - a novel about the need for human connection and understanding - and essential reading, now more than ever.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43697388126252,"sku":"9780571301652","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780571301652_562138f7-73aa-4640-a51b-db307bdd637d.jpg?v=1759677954","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.live\/products\/9780571301652","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}