Lean on Pete, (Paperback)

from Twink

I'm always a sucker for books and movies that champion the underdog, the overlooked, the hard luckers and the downtrodden. Willy Vlautin'snovel, Lean on Pete, is all that. It's recently been made into a movie. Charley is fifteen years old and lives with his single father, often fending for himsel...

from AndrewBlackman

The writing style is incredibly simple, probably the most simple of any book I've read since childhood. It perfectly captures the realistic voice of the narrator, a sporadically-educated 15-year-old boy called Charley. Yet despite or perhaps because of the simplicity, it drew me into the story an...

from polarbear123

This book has a fantastic pace to it. The prose is simple and sharp and the story moves along so fast it is quite easy to complete the book in one sitting. It was a reasonably straight story of a teenage boy going through a tough time in his life and finding some solace in teh company of a horse ...

from grheault

Charley is sad but not mean, hungry but not vicious, more likely to be hurt than to hurt. He is an impoverished fifteen year old who has been fed,watered, and trailered around the Western US by his wayward father who has in some odd way loved this boy. Charley keeps his hurts to himself, until he...

from Finxy

Review from Badelynge. Willy Vlautin is the frontman of a band called Richmond Fontaine who also writes novels. Lean on Pete is his third such book. It introduces us to Charley Thompson, a 15 year old boy who lives an unsettled life with his dad. Pretty much left to his own devices and uprooted f...