| International Standard Book Number |
9780063346635
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| International Standard Book Number |
006334663X
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
813/.6
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| Personal Name |
Vlautin, Willy, author.
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| Title Statement |
The left and the lucky : a novel / Willy Vlautin.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Imprint |
New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
244 pages ; 21 cm
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| Summary, Etc. |
"Eddie Wilkens is a workaholic house painter in his early forties. His wife has left him to her regret, and his main employee, Houston, is a loafer and scoundrel who barely shows up for work. Unassuming and self-reliant, Eddie is thoughtful man who rarely gets angry, despite life's frequent provocations, but he is ruled by a guilt that he has carried for nearly twenty years. Next door, a woman and her two sons move in with her frail and aging mother. The youngest boy, Russell, eight-years-old, is quiet and small for his age and lives in constant terror of his increasingly lost and troubled fifteen-year-old brother, Curtis. As their mother struggles to keep the family together and the grandmother's health begins to falter they find themselves unable to protect Russell and themselves from Curtis's cruelty, which threatens to explode in frenetic violence. Though neither knows it, Russell and Eddie will become each other's saving grace. While Russell's home life disintegrates he begins waiting in Eddie's backyard for him to get off work. Eddie offers the boy small acts of kindness: he feeds him, gives him jobs to do, listens to his dreams of escape, and offers Russell a glimpse into a world of hope and humor. A world of misfit painters, a derelict muscle car, an old dog, and the comradery and companionship of Eddie and his crew. In return, Russell gives Eddie a reason to carry on and helps him lay to rest the guilt that has plagued him for half of his life. Together, this makeshift father and son begin to build a better life, daring to trade the bleakness and cynicism around them for hope and friendship."-- Publisher description.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Families Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Secrecy Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Single parents Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Single mothers Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Bullying Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Working class Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Bullies Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Guilt Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Familles Romans, nouvelles, etc.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Secret Romans, nouvelles, etc.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Intimidation Romans, nouvelles, etc.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Travailleurs Romans, nouvelles, etc.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
House painters Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Me`res de famille monoparentale Romans, nouvelles, etc.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Culpabilite´ Romans, nouvelles, etc.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Portland (Or.) Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Novels.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Psychological fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Romans.
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