{"product_id":"the-night-always-comes-a-novel","title":"The Night Always Comes: a novel","description":"Review\n\nThis is a novel that lives firmly in the melancholia of the city's gentrification, hurtling readers through one woman's desperation to keep her life afloat in a city that's pushing its working class out, one razed lot at a time. ― New York Times\n\n[Vlautin] has particular eye for setpieces... his hardscrabble characters and their vanishing dreams have the tang of authenticity. ― Daily Mail\n\nThe Night Always Comes is a rare example of art that matters-a rare example of a novel that is heartbreaking, but also a combative condemnation of American injustice, while also a love letter to the beleaguered working class, and still damn fun to read. ― CrimeReads\n\nIt's propulsive, moving, dark and full of hope and heart. He's a genius. My book of the year. -- Craig Silvey ― Sydney Morning Herald\n\nVlautin's finest work to date, marrying his typical deep empathy for troubled characters with a robust and dynamic plot reminiscent of classic American noir crime fiction . . . All of this is done with a prose style that sings with simple clarity, like an arrow straight at the reader's heart. Extraordinary stuff. ― Big Issue\n\nA tear-struck revelation - both epic and timely, intimate and clear-eyed ... Lynette will have you from the first page and put you to the test a hundred times before the last. You'll finish knowing you'll never forget her. -- Megan Abbott\n\nRemarkable, real, and tender. Willy Vlautin's characters blaze with honesty, fighting for their slim chance at the American dream, leaving us to wonder if it was all a charade. An amazing achievement. -- Rene Denfield\n\nI can't remember the last time I worried myself sick about a fictional character the way I did about Lynette in Willy Vlautin's terrific, big-hearted new novel The Night Always Comes. You won't soon forget either her or the fraught world she so courageously navigates. -- Richard Russo\n\nHis stories are sturdy and bighearted and full of lives so shattered they shimmer. -- Cheryl Strayed\n\nThe straightforward beauty of Vlautin's writing, and the tender care he shows his characters, turns a story of struggle into indispensable reading. -- Ann Patchett\n\nOne of America's great writers. -- Roddy Doyle\n\nOne of the bravest novelists writing . An unsentimental Steinbeck, a heartbroken Haruf. -- Ursula K. Le Guin\n\nI finished reading this novel dripping with admiration for Willy Vlautin and the tough wonder he has brought forth. THE NIGHT ALWAYS COMES hits the high-water mark; there is skillful and beautiful objectivity to the writing, characters so real that when they bleed you get a few drops on your sleeve, and a story of economic want and desperation and heart. -- Daniel Woodrell\n\nHe is as far reaching as he is precise. He writes hard, delicate stories about things that are true. His characters cut me so close to the bone, I feel like they peel a layer of skin off me and I walk around after reading Willy Vlautin, more vulnerable, more open than I was before. And all the tougher for it. -- Kae Tempest\n\nA masterclass of scope and scale - a nail-biting novel of everyday survival. Relatable, terrifying, impassioned, and compassionate, Vlautin's latest will elevate you on one page and tear your heart out on the next. A marvelous novel that bleeds real, cuts deep, and offers just the right dose of hope. -- Ivy Pochoda\n\nProduct Description\n\n'Pacey and visceral.' Sunday Times\n'Imbued with the noirish urgency of a page-turning thriller.' Irish Times\n'A tear-struck revelation.' MEGAN ABBOTT\n\nBetween looking after her brother, working two low-paid jobs, and trying to take part-time college classes, Lynette is dangerously tired. Every penny she's earned for years, she's put into savings, trying to scrape together enough to take out a mortgage on the house she rents with her mother. Finally becoming a homeowner in their rapidly gentrifying Portland neighbourhood could offer Lynette the kind of freedoms she's never had. But, when the plan is derailed, Lynette must embark on a desperate ody","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40595642810453,"sku":"9780571361915N","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/files\/b6455827-33cb-4aed-bb6d-477c65b9d08f.jpg?v=1682420305","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/the-night-always-comes-a-novel","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}