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Jan 1, 1988 · Pete Dexter. 3.88. 6,930 ratings507 reviews. In this novel of social drama, a casual murder in the small Georgia town of Cotton Point just after World War II and the resulting court case cleave open the ugly divisions of race and class.
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PARIS TROUT. by Pete Dexter ‧RELEASE DATE: June 30, 1988. A gothic tale of murder, injustice, and mayhem in a small Georgia town at the end of WW II, by the hypnotically gifted author of God's Pocket (1983) and Deadwood (1986).
Paris Trout by Pete Dexter 5.0 Bleak in spirit and richly atmospheric, the novel, set in 1949, centers around a small-town Georgia shopkeeper named Paris Trout who murders a black child over a debt.
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.
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Nov 4, 2014 · Paris Trout. : 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....
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- Pete Dexter
- Random House Publishing Group, 2014
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Nov 20, 2015 · ‘Paris Trout‘ is a story from more than a half century ago, and takes place in a part of the world that was dragged into the future kicking and screaming. Georgia in the middle of the 20th century was particularly cruel outside of white male dominion.
