Willy Vlautin

Movies

Western Exit
Ken Black
Three estranged sisters reluctantly reunite over a hopeful inheritance.
Lean on Pete
Novel
Charley Thompson, a teenager living with his single father, gets a summer job working for horse trainer Del Montgomery. Bonding with an aging racehorse named Lean on Pete, Charley is horrified to learn he is bound for slaughter, and so he steals the horse, and the duo embark on an odyssey across the new American frontier.
The Motel Life
Novel
A pair of working-class brothers flee their Reno Motel after getting involved in a fatal hit-and-run accident.