Willy Vlautin's latest novel, 'The Horse,' finds a desolate man in the Nevada desert, hopeless until he encounters a creature in even more desperate straits.
Willy Vlautin has a soft spot for horses. In his six previous novels, horses show up again and again in anecdotes, as transportation and even as characters. Vlautin’s third novel, “Lean on Pete,” is about a boy who works at a dilapidated race track in Oregon and befriends a racehorse destined for the glue factory. Horses also appear with regularity in Vlautin’s songs.
He remembered only waking up in his car outside the Banc Club covered in vomit, his guitar in pieces, and his notebook gone. For over forty years of drinking, he’d seldom blacked out, but now he frequently did.” Unable to drink like he used to, Al retreats to the deserted mining camp, where his memories take on a spectral presence. Then the horse shows up, shocking Al back to life and into action, but he’s been lost inside himself for so long, he’s not even sure whether the horse is real.
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