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Book Review: Willy Vlautin writes broken America like no one else, but The Horse disappoints
The ex-Richmond Fontaine singer turned novelist’s latest offering has exquisite moments loyal readers will devour, but his new book breaks little new ground
Nobody writes broken America like Willy Vlautin. The singer turned novelist has an impressive back catalogue in capturing the underbelly of forgotten America. He manages to write beautifully about isolation, abuse, loneliness and abandonment, but does so in way which leads him to find the redemption, the love and the heart of his best stories.
Given the success of his superb novel Lean on Peat, the coming-of-age story of a young boy who befriends a busted racehorse, it is with some degree of surprise that Vlautin has emerged with his latest offering, The Horse.
