Motel Life
Motel Life
Motel Life
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Description
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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.
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
"Vlautin's coiled, poetically matter-of-fact prose calls to mind S.E.Hinton." -- Publishers Weekly
"If there's any justice, anywhere, The Motel Life will be widely read and widely admired." -- Booklist
"Both heartbreaking and inspirational...written...with a simple hypnotic tone that seems as if it was grown in the Reno heat." -- Associated Press ASAP
"Slighter than Carver, less puerile than Bukowski, Vlautin...manages to lay claim to the same blearyeyed territory, and...to make it new." -- New York Times Book Review, EDITOR'S CHOICE
"A natural for the bigscreen and in fact Babel and 21 Grams writer Guillermo Arriaga has bought the film rights..." -- Salt Lake City Tribune
"The furthest Vlautin's men can move is in circles, shackled to their dysfunctions and their meager paychecks..." -- San Francisco Weekly
"I'm floored...This book feel so damn real, so powerful, so much like life, even if it's not yours." -- Jonathan Zwickel, The Stranger
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