Don't Skip Out on Me cover art

Don't Skip Out on Me

 Preview
Try Premium Plus free
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Don't Skip Out on Me

By: Willy Vlautin
Narrated by: Willy Vlautin
Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £22.99

Buy Now for £22.99

Confirm Purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.
Cancel

About this listen

A beautiful, wrenching portrait of a downtrodden man from the much-loved author of Lean On Pete.

Meet Horace Hopper, a 21-year-old farm hand in Tonopah, Nevada, who works for Mr Reece and his wife, the nearest thing he's had to family in years. But Horace, half white, half Paiute Indian, dreams of bigger things.

Leaving behind the farm and its fragile stability, he heads south to reinvent himself as the Mexican boxer Hector Hidalgo. Slowly, painfully, the possibility emerges that his dreams might not just be the delusions of a lost soul. But at what cost, and what of those he's left behind?

Exploring the fringes of contemporary America, Don't Skip Out on Me is an extraordinary work of compassion - a novel about the need for human connection and understanding - and essential listening, now more than ever.

©2018 Willy Vlautin (P)2018 HarperCollins Publishers Contemporary Fiction Genre Fiction Fiction

Listeners also enjoyed...

 The Motel Life cover art
We Live in Water cover art
Made in the U.S.A. cover art
Shoot the Moon cover art
Thunder and Rain cover art
Bluebottle cover art
Hallowed Murder cover art
Amarillo cover art
Townie cover art
Girl Unbroken cover art
Halfway cover art
Eat Only When You're Hungry cover art
Two Thousand Minnows cover art
USA Noir cover art
Send Down the Rain cover art
The Ranger cover art
All stars
Most relevant  
I wished this had gone on for much longer. The writing style appears quite simple but the characters are beautifully portrayed and the fine detail really brings it alive. I felt every moment.

Life's hard.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Another Masterpiece from Willy Vlautin. I was enthralled from the first chapter. The characters were well formed with the words painting vivid pictures in my mind. The ending was not what I wanted it to be or hoped it would be. It has been a long time since an author was able to generate such a desire for an outcome. Vlautin does this for me in all his books . A great read.

Another Masterpiece

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Gripped me the whole way though, it's hard to say too much without spoiling the book, so I'll just say that you'll love it if you like words put in a really good order that makes a compelling story

Unbelievable book - so good

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I absolutely love Willy Vlautin but this was the first audiobook of his I’ve listened to. I’d read the book already but hearing it was another ball game entirely. This was extraordinary. Cannot recommend more highly.

Incredible

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.