# Don't Skip Out on Me

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- Authors: [Willy Vlautin](https://www.bookquiver.com/willy-vlautin)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 2019-01-17
- Genres: Fiction: literary and general non-genre, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general

## Description

FINALIST FOR THE 2019 PEN/FAULKNER AWARDMeet Horace Hopper, a twenty-one-year-old farm hand in Tonopah, Nevada, who works for Mr Reece and his wife, the nearest thing he’s had to family in years. But Horace, half-white half-Paiute Indian, dreams of bigger things. Leaving behind the farm and its fragile stability, he heads South to re-invent himself as the Mexican boxer Hector Hidalgo. Slowly, painfully, the possibility emerges that his dreams might not just be the delusions of a lost soul… but at what cost, and what of those he’s left behind? Exploring the fringes of contemporary America, Don’t Skip Out on Me is an extraordinary work of compassion - a novel about the need for human connection and understanding - and essential reading, now more than ever.

## Editions

### Don't Skip Out on Me

- Publisher: Faber AND Faber
- ISBN: 978-05-7130-165-2
- Pages: 304
- Published: 2019-01-17
- Language: en_US