The Motel Life
by:
Willy Vlautin (author)
ISBN:
9780571228072 (0571228070)
Publish date: April 24th 2006
Publisher: Faber and Faber
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...