Name: Paris Trout

Author: Pete Dexter
Year: 1988
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9780140122060
0140122060
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 citizen named Paris Trout, who feels he'€™s 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. Trout'€™s 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 Trout '€œA masterpiece, complex and breathtaking . . . [Pete] Dexter portrays his characters with marvelous sharpness.'€'€”Los Angeles Times '€œA psychological spellbinder that will take your breath away and probably interfere with your sleep.'€'€”The Washington Post Book World '€œDexter'€™s 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 O'€™Connor.'€'€”William Styron '€œDexter'€™s powerfully emotional novel doesn'€™t have any brakes. Hang on, because you won'€™t be able to stop until the finish.'€'€”Chicago Tribune
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