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Narrator

Willy Vlautin

Willy Vlautin has published six previous novels, most recently The Night Always Comes. Both The Motel Life and Lean on Pete were turned into feature films, released in 2012 and 2017 respectively, the latter adapted and directed by Andrew Haigh. Vlautin lives outside of Portland, Oregon, and is the founding member of the bands Richmond Fontaine and The Delines.

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Title:

The Motel Life

Written by:

Willy Vlautin 

Read by:

Willy Vlautin 

Format:

Unabridged CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

5 

Duration:

5 hours 28 minutes 

Published:

November 01 2021 

Available Date:

November 01 2021 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9781867580737 

Genres:

Fiction; Contemporary Fiction; General Fiction; Literary Fiction 

Publisher:

Bolinda audio 

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Price

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AUD$ 39.95

AUD$ 39.95

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Award winning author

The Motel Life is a hugely moving story from Willy Vlautin, bestselling author of Lean on Pete.

Opening like an early Tom Waits barstool-tale, The Motel Life tells the story of two brothers, Frank and Jerry Lee. Taking to the road in an attempt to escape the hit and run accident caused by Jerry Lee, the novel goes back to tell the story of their unhappy lives. With intense feeling and compassion, Vlautin explores the frustrations and failed dreams of the two brothers – one a natural storyteller, the other an artist – and renders perfectly the sense of entrapment they feel. Will the kid's death shock them out of their torpor or send them ever deeper into trouble? Can Annie James, a girl from their past, offer them any sort of redemption, however slim?

'If there's any justice, anywhere, The Motel Life will be widely read and widely admired.'
Booklist

'Vlautin's coiled, poetically matter-of-fact prose calls to mind S.E. Hinton.'
Publishers Weekly