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Paris Trout
by Dexter, Pete
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0394563700
- ISBN 13
- 9780394563701
- Seller
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Brentwood, Tennessee, United States
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About This Item
Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: Random House Inc, 1988 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. first printing.. publisher's cloth-backed boards in dust jacket. A fine copy in a very near fine jacket withe the slightest of bumping to the bottom of the spine. Slight edge wear to jacket. "The horrific events of a summer's day in Cotton Point, Georgia, tore apart the social fabric of that sleepy little place. Some of the townspeople thought Paris Trout a hero for what he did; others, that the law should make him pay. Protected by brodart..
Synopsis
Pete Dexter is an American novelist. He was a columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News and The Sacramento Bee, and syndicated to many newspapers such as the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. He began writing fiction after a life-changing incident in 1981, in which thirty drunken Philadelphians in the neighborhood of Grays Ferry, armed with baseball bats and upset by a recent column about a drug deal-gone-wrong murder, beat the writer severely. In Dexter’s 1988 winner of the National Book Award, Paris Trout , the novel tells a dramatic story of one mans’ obsessive bigotry and violence. When the older brother of 14-year-old Rosie Sayers refuses to pay for a damaged car that Trout has sold and insured but will not fix, Trout and an accomplice decide to use him as an object lesson for the black community. Going to Henry Ray's home, Trout shoots his little sister Rosie to death. The story is set in the small town of Cotton Point, taking place just after World War II, the court case that takes place reveals ugly divisions of race and class. As Trout becomes more obsessed with his cause; indifferently, he moves towards greater violence. A spellbinding, elaborate novel.
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- Bookseller
- Tome Raiders
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000747
- Title
- Paris Trout
- Author
- Dexter, Pete
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394563700
- ISBN 13
- 9780394563701
- Publisher
- Random House Inc
- Place of Publication
- Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1988
- Keywords
- Paris trout, pete dexter, first edition
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