The Motel Life
by:
Nate Beaty (author)
Willy Vlautin (author)
With "echoes of Of Mice and Men"(The Bookseller, UK), The Motel Life explores the frustrations and failed dreams of two Nevada brothers—on the run after a hit-and-run accident—who, forgotten by society, and short on luck and hope, desperately cling to the edge of modern life.
With "echoes of Of Mice and Men"(The Bookseller, UK), The Motel Life explores the frustrations and failed dreams of two Nevada brothers—on the run after a hit-and-run accident—who, forgotten by society, and short on luck and hope, desperately cling to the edge of modern life.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780061171116 (0061171115)
Publish date: April 24th 2007
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pages no: 206
Edition language: English
The Motel Life explores the frustrations and failed dreams of two Nevada brothers—on the run after a hit-and-run accident—who, forgotten by society, and short on luck and hope, desperately cling to the edge of modern life. Amazon.com The acclaim I've seen for this book was hard to ignore. "Ech...
I loved this book -- so unusual. I read it quickly in a couple of days. Vlautin had such a great voice in Frank Flannigan. Such a sad sack story, but I found the characters so appealing. Frank, his troubled brother Jerry Lee, his sometime girlfriend Annie James, the dog he befriends, and of course t...