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“Vlautin’s coiled, poetically matter-of-fact prose calls to mind S.E.Hinton.” (Publishers Weekly)

“If there’s any justice, anywhere, The Motel Life will be widely read and widely admired.” (Booklist)

“Both heartbreaking and inspirational...written...with a simple hypnotic tone that seems as if it was grown in the Reno heat.” (Associated Press ASAP)

“Slighter than Carver, less puerile than Bukowski, Vlautin...manages to lay claim to the same blearyeyed territory, and...to make it new.” (New York Times Book Review, EDITOR'S CHOICE)

“A natural for the bigscreen and in fact Babel and 21 Grams writer Guillermo Arriaga has bought the film rights...” (Salt Lake City Tribune)

“The furthest Vlautin’s men can move is in circles, shackled to their dysfunctions and their meager paychecks...” (San Francisco Weekly)

“I’m floored...This book feel so damn real, so powerful, so much like life, even if it’s not yours.” (Jonathan Zwickel, The Stranger)