{"product_id":"9780061171116","title":"The Motel Life : A Novel","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe Motel Life\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Willy Vlautin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith \"echoes of \u003cem\u003eOf Mice and Men\u003c\/em\u003e\"(\u003cem\u003eThe Bookseller\u003c\/em\u003e, UK), \u003cem\u003eThe Motel Life\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“Vlautin’s coiled, poetically matter-of-fact prose calls to mind S.E.Hinton.”\u003cbr\u003e“If there’s any justice, anywhere, The Motel Life will be widely read and widely admired.”\u003cbr\u003e“Both heartbreaking and inspirational…written…with a simple hypnotic tone that seems as if it was grown in the Reno heat.”\u003cbr\u003e“Slighter than Carver, less puerile than Bukowski, Vlautin…manages to lay claim to the same blearyeyed territory, and…to make it new.”\u003cbr\u003e“A natural for the bigscreen and in fact Babel and 21 Grams writer Guillermo Arriaga has bought the film rights…”\u003cbr\u003e“The furthest Vlautin’s men can move is in circles, shackled to their dysfunctions and their meager paychecks…”\u003cbr\u003e“I’m floored…This book feel so damn real, so powerful, so much like life, even if it’s not yours.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780061171116\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":41056971882702,"sku":"9780061171116","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/9780061171116.jpg?v=1648263261","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780061171116","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}