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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. Early life and education. Dexter was ...
- Novelist, screenwriter
- July 22, 1943 (age 80), Pontiac, Michigan, U.S.
Paris Trout is an unrepentant racist in 1949 Georgia. The greedy and paranoid shopkeeper murders the sister of a black man who refuses to repay Trout’s IOU. When Trout is arrested for the crime, he is stunned and enraged, showing himself to be a man of the Old South. Lawyer Harry Seagraves arrives to calm the waters in court but is soon ...
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- April 20, 1991
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DEXTER, Pete 1943-PERSONAL: Born 1943, in Pontiac, MI; married (divorced); married second wife, Dian; children: (second marriage) Casey. Education: Received degree ...
Jan 1, 1988 · Pete Dexter. 3.88. 6,860ratings499reviews. Kindle $12.99. 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. The man accused of shooting a black girl, a storekeeper named Paris Trout, has no great feeling ...
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He lives on an island off the coast of Washington. 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 ...
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Aug 28, 2023 · 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 - WikiMili, The Best Wikipedia Reader
About 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. The time and place: Cotton Point, Georgia, just after World War II. The event: the murder of a fourteen-year-old black girl by a respected white ...
