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Eddie Wilkens è un uomo semplice e onesto che da tutta la vita svolge il mestiere di imbianchino. Sua moglie lo ha lasciato, cosa che lei stessa rimpiange, e il suo principale dipendente, Houston, è un fannullone. Eddie si arrabbia raramente, nonostante le continue provocazioni della vita, e convive ogni giorno con il grande dolore per la perdita di sua sorella, morta suicida tanti anni prima. Nella casa accanto, una donna si trasferisce dalla madre anziana con i suoi due figli. Il più piccolo, Russell, ha otto anni, è taciturno e minuto per la sua età, e vive nel terrore costante del fratello quindicenne, Curtis, sempre più smarrito, tormentato e crudele, specialmente nei confronti del fratello minore. La madre fatica a tenere insieme la famiglia, lavora durante la notte ed è spesso fuori casa, mentre la salute della nonna, che ha un principio di demenza, peggiora ogni giorno di più. Russell, sempre più solo e indifeso di fronte alla crescente violenza del fratello, trova rifugio in Eddie, che ha sempre desiderato avere un figlio e che si lega rapidamente al piccolo. Russell e Eddie diventano l’uno la salvezza dell’altro, un padre e un figlio improvvisati che iniziano a costruirsi una vita migliore, contro la cupezza e il cinismo che li circondano.

240 pages, Paperback

Published May 1, 2026

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Willy Vlautin

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Willy Vlautin (born 1967) is an American author and the lead singer and songwriter of Portland, Oregon band Richmond Fontaine. Born and raised in Reno, Nevada, he has released nine studio albums since the late nineties with his band while he has written four novels: The Motel Life, Northline, Lean on Pete, and The Free.

Published in the US, several European and Asian countries, Vlautin's first book, The Motel Life was well received. It was an editor's choice in the New York Times Book Review and named one of the top 25 books of the year by the Washington Post.

His second, Northline was also critically hailed, and Vlautin was declared an important new American literary realist. Famed writer George Pelecanos stated that Northline was his favorite book of the decade. The first edition of this novel came with an original instrumental soundtrack performed by Vlautin and longtime bandmate Paul Brainard.

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.

As a novelist, Vlautin has cited writers such as John Steinbeck, Raymond Carver, Barry Gifford, and William Kennedy as influences. HIs writing is highly evocative of the American West; all three of his novels being set in and around Oregon, Nevada and New Mexico. His books explore the circumstances and relationships of people near the bottom of America's social and economic spectrum, itinerant, and often ailed by alcohol addiction.

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