Mysterious Book Report No. 339 – Don’t Skip Out On Me

By |2018-06-18T18:50:09+00:00June 18th, 2018|Mysterious Book Report|

Don’t Skip Out On Me by Willy Vlautin Harper Perennial, $22.99, 269 pages, ISBN 978-0-06-268445-5 This weeks MBR defies genre.  Although noirish in tone, it’s unclassifiable by nature because it includes elements of several different styles.  It’s a tough guy story that could have been written by Hemingway or London, featuring a plot which might’ve come from Flannery O’Connor herself.  It’s a coming-of-age tale that professes hope but appears