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Paris Trout

Paris Trout

Paris Trout
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Paris Trout

by Dexter, Pete

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0394563700
ISBN 13
9780394563701
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New York: Random House, 1988. Near Fine in a Fine dust jacket. Black boards quarterbound in black cloth. Both the spine and the front board are stamped in gilt. Quarto. 306pps. First Printing. A date is penned in the upper corner of the ffep., and there is a bit of faint dustspotting to the closed page-edges, otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. The dust jacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has light touches of crinkling to the extremities; the original price (17.95) is intact. A very nice, collector's-quality copy of this National Book Award winner.<br><br><b><font color=#003366> "The time and place: Cotton Point, a small Georgia town, just after World War II. The event: the murder of a fourteen-year-old black girl by a white man named Paris Trout, who feels he's done absolutely nothing wrong.<br> With razor-sharp precision, Pete Dexter etches a picture of a brutal killing and its effects on this small Southern town. Just as an acid continues to bite farther and farther into a surface, so the act continues to eat away at the social fabric of the town, through its manners and civility, relentlessly exposing the personalities of its inhabitants..."</b></font><br><br> Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be promptly refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books. 40-D.. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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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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Title
Paris Trout
Author
Dexter, Pete
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Hardcover
Book Condition
Used
Edition
First Edition
ISBN 10
0394563700
ISBN 13
9780394563701
Publisher
Random House
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1988
Keywords
PETE DEXTER PARIS TROUT SIGNED FIRST EDITIONS AMERICAN FICTION LITERATURE LITERARY COTTON POINT GEORGIA SOUTH SOUTHERN COLLECTIBLE USED BOOKS NOVELS
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8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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