A musician's chance encounter with a half-blind nag makes him take stock of his shattered life in the author and songwriter's latest succinct but compelling novel There is something quietly glorious about a novelist who identifies a furrow for their writing and then ploughs it diligently and skilfully from one novel to the next, with little concern for reinvention. For Willy Vlautin, that furrow is working-class life in the American west, burdened by debt, alcoholism and depression but enlivened...
A musician's chance encounter with a half-blind nag makes him take stock of his shattered life in the author and songwriter's latest succinct but compelling novel There is something quietly glorious about a novelist who identifies a furrow for their writing and then ploughs it diligently and skilfully from one novel to the next, with little concern for reinvention. For Willy Vlautin, that furrow is working-class life in the American west, burdened by debt, alcoholism and depression but enlivened...
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