Paris Trout: A Novel

ISBN: 0812987381

Author: Dexter, Pete

Condition: New

Pete Dexters 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 citizen named Paris Trout, who feels hes 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. Trouts indifference haunts his defense lawyer; his festering paranoia warps his timid, quiet wife; and Trout himself moves closer to madness as he becomes obsessed with his cause-and his vendettas.Praise for Paris TroutA masterpiece, complex and breathtaking . . . [Pete] Dexter portrays his characters with marvelous sharpness.-Los Angeles TimesA psychological spellbinder that will take your breath away and probably interfere with your sleep.-The Washington Post Book WorldDexters brilliant understanding of the Deep South has allowed him to capture much of its essence-its bitter class distinctions, its violence, its strangeness-with a fidelity of detail and an ear for speech that I have rarely encountered since Flannery OConnor.-William StyronDexters powerfully emotional novel doesnt have any brakes. Hang on, because you wont be able to stop until the finish.-Chicago Tribune