Paris Trout by Pete Dexter

Paris Trout by Pete Dexter

Pete Dexter's National Book Award-winning tour de force tells the mesmerizing story of a shocking crime that shatters lives and exposes the hypocrisies of a small Southern town.

The time and place: Cotton Point, Georgia, just after World War I. The event: the murder of a fourteen-year-old black girl by a respected white citizen named Paris Trout, who feels he's done absolutely nothing wrong. As a trial looms, the crime eats away at the social fabric of Cotton Point, through its facade of manners and civility. Trout's indifference haunts his defense lawyer; his festering paranoia warps his timid, quiet wife; and Trout himself moves closer to madness as he becomes obsessed with his cause--and his vendettas.

Praise for Paris Trout

A masterpiece, complex and breathtaking . . . Pete] Dexter portrays his characters with marvelous sharpness.--Los Angeles Times

A psychological spellbinder that will take your breath away and probably interfere with your sleep.--The Washington Post Book World

Dexter's brilliant understanding of the Deep South has allowed him to capture much of its essence--its bitter class distinctions, its violence, its strangeness--with a fidelity of detail and an ear for speech that I have rarely encountered since Flannery O'Connor.--William Styron

Dexter's powerfully emotional novel doesn't have any brakes. Hang on, because you won't be able to stop until the finish.--Chicago Tribune

Pete Dexter began his working life with a U.S. Post office in New Orleans, Louisiana. He wasn't very good at mail and quit, then caught on as a newspaper reporter in Florida, which he was not very good at, got married, and was not very good at that. In Philadelphia he became a newspaper columnist, which he was pretty good at, and got divorced, which you would have to say he was good at because it only cost $300. Dexter remarried, won the National Book Award and built a house in the desert so remote that there is no postal service. He's out there six months a year, pecking away at the typewriter, living proof of the adage What goes around comes around -- that is, you quit the post office, pal, and the post office quits you.

SKU	CIN0394563700VG
ISBN 13	9780394563701
ISBN 10	0394563700
Title	Paris Trout
Author	Pete Dexter
Condition	Very Good
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	1988-07-12
Number of pages	306
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