Lean on Pete
Subtitle: a novel
By: Willy Vlautin
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780571235728
Subjects: Teenage boys; Fiction; Race horses
Description: Left homeless by the death of his father, fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson sets off with a racehorse, Lean on Pete, on a perilous trek from Portland, Oregon to Wyoming to find a distant aunt, hoping to regain stability in his life.