{"product_id":"dont-skip-out-on-me-paperback","title":"Don't Skip Out on Me - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWilly Vlautin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFINALIST FOR THE PEN\/FAULKNER AWARD\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAn ALA Notable Book\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom award-winning author Willy Vlautin, comes this moving novel about a young ranch hand who goes on a quest to become a champion boxer to prove his worth. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHorace Hopper is a half-Paiute, half-Irish ranch hand who wants to be somebody. He's spent most of his life on the ranch of his kindly guardians, Mr. and Mrs. Reese, herding sheep alone in the mountains. But while the Reeses treat him like a son, Horace can't shake the shame he feels from being abandoned by his parents. He decides to leave the only loving home he's known to prove his worth by training to become a boxer. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMr. Reese is holding on to a way of life that is no longer sustainable. He's a seventy-two-year-old rancher with a bad back. He's not sure how he'll keep things going without Horace but he knows the boy must find his own way. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComing down from the mountains of Nevada to the unforgiving desert heat of Tucson, Horace finds a trainer and begins to get fights. His journey to become a champion brings him to boxing rings of Mexico and finally, to the seedy streets of Las Vegas, where Horace learns he can't change who he is or outrun his destiny. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilly Vlautin writes from America's soul, chronicling the lives of those who are downtrodden and forgotten with profound tenderness. \u003cem\u003eDon't Skip Out on Me\u003c\/em\u003e is a beautiful, wrenching story about one man's search for identity and belonging that will make you consider those around you differently.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHorace Hopper has spent most of his life on a Nevada sheep ranch but dreams of something bigger. Mr. and Mrs. Reese, the aging ranchers, took him in and treated him like a son, intending to leave the ranch in his hands. However, Horace, ashamed of his half Paiute, half Irish heritage and that his parents did not want him, feels as if he doesn't belong there, or anywhere. Realizing he needs to make a name for himself, he decides to leave the only loving home he's known to prove his worth as a championship boxer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMr. Reese is holding on to a way of life that is no longer sustainable. He's a seventy-two-year-old rancher with a bad back. He's not sure how he'll keep things going without Horace, but he understands the boy must find his own way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo become a champion, Horace must not only change the way he eats, trains, and thinks but also who he is. Reinventing himself as Hector Hildago, a scrappy Mexican boxer, he heads to Tucson and begins training and entering fights. 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