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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.
Pete Dexter is a literary fiction author who has been described as a natural humorist, a tough guy, and a man with a kind heart. He has made a reputation for himself writing beautifully observed, blackly funny, hard-edged novels.
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 Esquire, Sports Illustrated, and Playboy.
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Jan 1, 2001 · Pete Dexter. 3.61. 3,655 ratings421 reviews. The sun was rising over Moat County, Florida, when Sheriff Thurmond Call was found on the highway, gutted like an alligator. A local redneck was tried, sentenced, and set to fry.
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Pete Dexter’s marvelous novel Deadwood (1986) begins with the fateful year 1876, when Wild Bill Hicock [sic] was killed, and ends about 1879, when a terrible fire destroyed the wooden homes, supply stores, saloons, cold water bathhouses, lumber yards, and dance halls.
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Pete Dexter is the author of the National Book Award–winning novel Paris Trout as well as Spooner, Paper Trails, God’s Pocket, Deadwood, Brotherly Love, and Train.
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.
