Paris trout by pete dexter won the national book award in 1988. Dexter, a former newspaper columnist, is also the author of deadwood and gods pocket. Paris trout is the owner of a store and bank for black citizens when he kills a fourteenyear old black girl in cotton point, georgia. Pete dexter is a brilliant american author who can do no harm in my eyes. Over the years, pete dexters hardedged novels have been widely praised for both the riveting stories they tell and the sparkling clarity of the sentences with which they are told. In this novel of social drama, a casual murder in the small georgia to. Trout becomes an embarrassment to the polite white society that prefers to hold itself high above such primitive prejudice. This is the finest book ive read in a long time, and i dont know how it is that i never heard of it until seeing pd speak last month in oakland he was reading from a. He has been a columnist for the philadelphia daily news and the sacramento bee, an. Paris trout by pete dexter free mobi epub ebooks download.
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