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Pete Dexter (born July 22, 1943) is an American novelist. He won the U.S. National Book Award in 1988 for his novel Paris Trout.
Pete Dexter is a literary fiction author who has been described as a natural humorist, a tough guy, and a man with a kind heart. He has made a reputation for himself writing beautifully observed, blackly funny, hard-edged novels.
Oct 2, 2009 · Spooner, the new novel by National Book Award-winning author Pete Dexter, tells the story of a wild boy who grows up to be a wild man — not unlike the author himself.
Pete Dexter is the author of the National Book Award-winning novel Paris Trout and five other novels: God's Pocket, Deadwood, Brotherly Love, The Paperboy, and Train. He has been a columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News and the Sacramento Bee, and has contributed to many magazines, including Esquire, Sports Illustrated, and Playboy.
Jan 1, 1988 · In Pete Dexter's award-winning tour de force set in the fictional Cotton Point, Georgia, Paris Trout, an unapologetic racist, commits a violent act at the novel's beginning. The remainder of the novel presents how this single act impacts the town and Trout himself.
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 II.
Over the years, Pete Dexter’s hard-edged novels have been widely praised for both the riveting stories they tell and the sparkling clarity of the sentences with which they are told. His 1988 best-selling novel, Paris Trout , won the National Book Award.
Pete Dexter is the author of the National Book Award–winning novel Paris Trout as well as Spooner, Paper Trails, God’s Pocket, Deadwood, Brotherly Love, and Train.
Dec 5, 1988 · Every writer's nightmare happened to Mr. Dexter at home in Sacramento, Calif., in July 1987, when he completed the middle section of his novel about a town's response to an...
Nov 4, 2014 · 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 II.
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