{"product_id":"lean-on-pete","title":"Lean on Pete","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"The writing is spare and straightforward...There is intensity in Vlautin's narration, and also beauty and power...Vlautin's major accomplishment lies in posing a damning question: How could we, as a society, have allowed this to happen?\" -- \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSeattle Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Willy Vlautin, plumbs the depths of despair but finally rewards you with redemption.\" -- \u003cstrong\u003eSunday Mercury\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An archetypal American novel, Huck Finn for the crystal-meth generation...a sad, often brutal, but oddly beautiful portrait of an America that's forgotten only because we choose not to remember its continuing existence.\" -- \u003cstrong\u003eIndependent Extra\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Willy Vlautin's novels are clean as a bone, companionable, and profound. He is a master at paring loneliness and longing from his characters, issuing them through downturns, trials and transience without starving their humanity, and always sustaining them, and the reader, with ordinary hope.\" -- \u003cstrong\u003eSarah Hall\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Arguably his best so far...If you like melancholy Americana Vlautin's writing is for you.\" -- \u003cstrong\u003eBookseller (London), \"Bookseller's Choice\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Lean on Pete reminds me of the best parts of Gus Van Sant's beautiful film My Own Private Idaho. Willy's voice is pure and his stories universal. He never loses hope or heart and I believe every word he's written.\" -- \u003cstrong\u003eBarry Gifford\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"For anyone with a sentimental attachment to beasts of an equine nature, a river of tears awaits.\" -- \u003cstrong\u003eThe List, UK\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The comparisons with Steinbeck and Carver are richly deserved, yet Vlautin is a truly original voice...powerful, heartbreaking stuff. Just three novels in and Vlautin is already one of the best writers in America.\" -- \u003cstrong\u003eMark Billingham\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Reading Willy Vlautin is like jumping into a clear, cold lake in the middle of summer. His prose is beautifully spare and clean, but underneath the surface lies an incre\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67609773965679,"sku":"9780061456534","price":108.16,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0921\/9384\/9711\/files\/0061456535.jpg?v=1790610248","url":"https:\/\/internacional.umlivro.com.br\/products\/lean-on-pete","provider":"UmLivro Internacional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}