Lean on Pete : a novel /

Vlautin, Willy

Lean on Pete : a novel / Willy Vlautin. - London Faber 2010 - 277 p. : maps ; 22 cm.

15 year-old Charley Thompson wants a home, food on the table, a high school he can attend for more than part of a year and some structure to his life. 'Lean on Pete' opens as Charley and his father arrive in Portland, Oregon, where the young man is about to take his first steps in the world of horse racing.

9780571235728 (pbk.) : 0571235727 9780571235728


Teenage boys - Fiction
Race horses - Fiction
Oregon - Fiction

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