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The motel life a novel

With "echoes of Of Mice and Men"(The Bookseller, UK), The Motel Life explores the frustrations and failed dreams of two Nevada brothers'on the run after a hit-and-run accident'who, forgotten by society, and short on luck and hope, desperately cling to the edge of modern life.

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  • "With "echoes of Of Mice and Men"(The Bookseller, UK), The Motel Life explores the frustrations and failed dreams of two Nevada brothers'on the run after a hit-and-run accident'who, forgotten by society, and short on luck and hope, desperately cling to the edge of modern life."@en
  • "Brothers Frank and Jerry Lee are on the run after a hit-and-run accident. Interweaving past and present, Vlautin unfolds the story of their unhappy lives--lives afflicted by drink, bleak economic circumstances, and family misfortune."
  • "Brothers Frank and Jerry Lee are on the run after a hit-and-run accident. Interweaving past and present, Vlautin unfolds the story of their unhappy lives--lives afflicted by drink, bleak economic circumstances, and family misfortune."@en
  • "Tells the story of two brothers, Frank and Jerry Lee. Taking to the road in an attempt to escape the hit-and-run accident caused by Jerry, the novel goes back to tell the story of their unhappy lives. With intense feeling and compassion, it explores the frustrations and failed dreams of the brothers: one a natural storyteller, the other an artist."@en
  • "Un accident de voiture bouleverse la vie de Franck et Jerry Lee Flannigan, âgés de 20 et 22 ans. Ils tuent accidentellement un adolescent et s'enfuient. Orphelins de père et de mère, ils prennent alors conscience que leurs rêves viennent de prendre fin, et qu'ils doivent apprendre à vivre avec leurs espoirs détruits et leurs frustrations. Premier roman."
  • "Frank and Jerry Lee take to the road after Jerry is the perpetrator of a hit and run incident. Both brothers feel entrapped, despite each of them having a creative outlet: one is a storyteller, and the other is an artist. Will the kid?s death act as a catharsis, or will it drive them into further misery? Can Annie James, a girl from their past, offer redemption?"
  • "Frank and Jerry Lee take to the road after Jerry is the perpetrator of a hit and run incident. Both brothers feel entrapped, despite each of them having a creative outlet: one is a storyteller, and the other is an artist. Will the kid?s death act as a catharsis, or will it drive them into further misery? Can Annie James, a girl from their past, offer redemption?"@en
  • "Alan and Gabe Polsky direct this action thriller starring Emile Hirsch, Stephen Dorff and Dakota Fanning. Brothers Frank (Hirsch) and Jerry Lee Flannigan (Dorff) are loyal and hard-working but often get into trouble. When Jerry Lee breaks the news to his brother that he has been involved in a fatal accident, Frank decides the best thing for them to do is run. As they move from motel to motel will Jerry Lee be able to keep control of his all-consuming guilt long enough for Frank to rekindle his relationship with old flame Annie (Fanning)?"
  • "Two brothers, Frank and Jerry, try to escape the ramifications of a fatal hit-and-run accident."

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  • "Popular literature"
  • "Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Road fiction"@en
  • "Road fiction"
  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Psychological fiction"

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  • "Motel life : Roman"
  • "Motel Life"
  • "Motel life Roman"
  • "Vida de motel"@es
  • "Vida de motel"
  • "Motel Life : Roman"
  • "Mot'el laip'ŭ : Willi Bŭllot'in changp'yŏn sosŏl"
  • "The motel life a novel"@en
  • "The motel life a novel"
  • "The motel life"@en
  • "The motel life"
  • "Motel life"@it
  • "The motel life : a novel"@en
  • "The motel life : a novel"
  • "Motel life : roman"

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